DBOS: A better way to build applications?

[Kent Sharkey]

Infoworld[^]:

An operating system on top of a distributed database, DBOS is a tantalizing glimpse of something that may eventually turn out to be cool.

Databases all the way down

[Daniel Pfeffer]

I can see how this would work for file systems, but how would it handle process isolation, resource allocation, etc. in a performant manner?

Freedom is the freedom to say that two plus two make four. If that is granted, all else follows. -- 6079 Smith W.

[Richard Andrew x64]

Didn't Microsoft already give up on this idea for the release of Vista? It was too resource intensive for the PCs of the time. Maybe it might work better now.

The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.

[jochance]

As someone who firmly believe the data is always king and that you should design around it instead of it being the cumbersome afterthought to your web front end baubles.... I am intrigued.