You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
In my view, one possible reason for believing ODBMSs do not support queries is a natural conclusion
that could be drawn from the DBMS Matrix, as
developed by well-respected database pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker. Dr. Stonebraker promoted this
matrix in his books, Object-Relational DBMSs: The Next Great Wave and Object-Relational
DBMSs: Tracking the Next Great Wave, the press, and in many conference
presentations over the years. It is shown below:
Dr. Stonebraker claims that it is a matrix for classifying DBMS applications.
Beautiful in its simplicity, the matrix has become part of the database culture
and "knowledge." Unfortunately, it's also inaccurate. The problem is
the lower right quadrant, which certainly implies that ODBMSs do not support
queries. Click here for more
on the errors in the DBMS Matrix.
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