White Paper - protect and enrich Domino investments
November 7 2003
Some weekend reading material for everyone...
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Mike Brown | 11/8/2003 6:21:21 AM
"The next major releases of Lotus Notes .... is slated for 2004. This release provides DB2 storage as an alternative back-end data store as well as the traditional Lotus Notes storage facility (NSF) data store. This strategy is designed to increase scalability and performance to the same level—potentially higher—as in the NSF data store."
Hmmm .... that sounds a bit timid to me. I mean I'm expecting HUGE increases in scalablity to come from the DB2 back-end, or what's the point of it?
Cheers,
- Mike
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Andrew Pollack http://www.thenorth.com/apblog | 11/8/2003 11:29:51 AM
First- I think that for SMALL data storage, and anything up to a given point, I'd expect that the NSF will be at least a little faster. It is, after all, local and doesn't require any network traffic or several layers of object management in memory to interface.
On the other hand, I'd expect much greater scale and consistancy from the DB2 side if they do it right. You may loose a little performance on the best case side, but on the high end of storage needs, I'd expect that your NSF's will always go pear shaped at some point where the DB2 should scale as high as the servers you've got to put them on.
Of course, this supposes that there are not architectural limitations on the thing based on how its implemented.
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Alan Lepofsky | 11/8/2003 5:46:21 PM
.. is more than just speed or scalability, it is functionality. For years developers have asked us to enhanced Domino with RDB capabilities, and now we are. With Domino on DB2 you will be able to use SQL queries in joins to create views/reports/tables etc that are next to imposible today. Its going to really open up the already amazing world of Domino.
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Andrew Pollack http://www.thenorth.com/apblog | 11/8/2003 5:59:44 PM
Alan,
I agree that it will help in the way you describe. I think in fact, that if done right it will help Domino people a lot more than it will help the other IBM software groups make inroads to the Domino market place.
There is a lot to that paper I'm not comfortable talking about on-line, but it definately re-validates the Domino & Notes product suite. I'm very happy about the document -- stunned in fact if I'm reading it right.
-- Andrew
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Andrew Pollack http://www.thenorth.com/apblog | 11/8/2003 6:03:20 PM
What I did see, was a view selection formula of type "SQL" that was valid sql syntax -- in fact it it was an inner join. Cool.
Now, what I did not see, was where the data source was set. Perhaps that was another view property. I have to wonder what options will be supported for that. Stored procedures? Non DB2 sources (oracle, odbc?) and what drivers -- the current connectors don't measure up as well as I'd like against recent developments in Java and .Net for that kind of work. Perhaps 7 will ship with that capability.
What I'm MOST excited about, is that clearly this is not just an ini-parameter or database property checkbox "use db2 for backend" kind of option -- there's serious work happening in the designer to support massive new functionality.
That's a very good thing, IMO.
-- Andrew
Ed, let me just say Thank You. To you, and to everyone at IBM who had anything to do with producing this paper -- and especially to whoever it was who came up with the title. We know all this. We know you've been saying all this. But IBM hasn't been saying it with this much clarity and this much power... until now. This, however, is exactly what we've been wanting. Thank You!
-rich