{"id":496,"date":"2003-06-03T11:24:51","date_gmt":"2003-06-03T15:24:51","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=496"},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-30T04:00:00","slug":"the_danger_of_databases","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/03\/the_danger_of_databases\/","title":{"rendered":"The Danger of Databases"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.crankycoder.com\/archives\/000011.html\">Victor Ng<\/a>:\n\n<\/p>\n\n\n\n<blockquote cite=\"http:\/\/www.crankycoder.com\/archives\/000011.html\">\n\nHaving everything in an object database is cool until you start using it. Then you realize that you&rsquo;ve lost all your existing toolchain to manipulate data on a UNIX box. grep? sed? find? All gone. vim? haha good luck.\n\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n<p>\n\nThis is essentially the other side of the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/exec\/obidos\/ASIN\/020161622X\/michaeltsai-20\">Power of Plain Text<\/a>. Of course, this is not to say that everything should be plain text, just that there are tradeoffs. Funny (perhaps) story: a while ago I was designing a format for serialized objects. Efficiency wasn&rsquo;t the primary concern, so I picked sexps. We already had code to generate and parse them, and they could easily be manipulated with Emacs and diff&rsquo;d by the regression tests. I started pitching this using my (I guess) Mac vocabulary of text files vs. binary files. Josh&rsquo;s first comment: text files are binary, too.\n\n<\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Victor Ng: Having everything in an object database is cool until you start using it. Then you realize that you&rsquo;ve lost all your existing toolchain to manipulate data on a UNIX box. grep? sed? find? All gone. vim? haha good luck. This is essentially the other side of the Power of Plain Text. Of course, [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"apple_news_api_created_at":"","apple_news_api_id":"","apple_news_api_modified_at":"","apple_news_api_revision":"","apple_news_api_share_url":"","apple_news_coverimage":0,"apple_news_coverimage_caption":"","apple_news_is_hidden":false,"apple_news_is_paid":false,"apple_news_is_preview":false,"apple_news_is_sponsored":false,"apple_news_maturity_rating":"","apple_news_metadata":"\"\"","apple_news_pullquote":"","apple_news_pullquote_position":"","apple_news_slug":"","apple_news_sections":"\"\"","apple_news_suppress_video_url":false,"apple_news_use_image_component":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-496","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-technology"],"apple_news_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=496"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/496\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=496"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=496"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mjtsai.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=496"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}