Relational Renaissance
I am spending some time with Gears right now.
As much as the relational model is seemingly derided for cloud services, I find it deeply ironic that most modern web browsers will soon have relational databases embedded in them.
The beauty of this trend (for me and “Oslo” in particular) is that it makes it much easier for a “model-driven” (read data-driven) runtimes to operate in the browser environment efficiently.
One of the core reasons that “M” has such a wonderful mapping to SQL (we have others too) is that it is by far the most efficient runtime for data query and projection today.
The relational renaissance in the browser is going to help bring “model-driven” applications to the browser in a first-class way…