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From http://books.couchdb.org/relax/reference/recipes
The title of this section quotes Pat Helland, a senior architect of transactional systems who worked at Microsoft and Amazon (read: he knows his shit).
Disclaimer: I feel like an early adopter of CouchDB and run it
successfully in production; I wish it had widespread acceptance & user
base full of clever people.
Having said that, I must point that general outcome of this section
is: transactions are overrated and banking examples of transactions
are unrealistic.
But this is simply not true. Banks do use transactional systems
heavily, the ones which predate RDBMSs actually. To be short: it's
CICS which rules in the banking world.
Maybe mr Helland knows his shit at Amazon & Microsoft, but from the
book text it looks like he doesn't know the shit happening at real
bank systems (which I believe it's not true).
The reader who was exposed to banking & CICS may have an impression
that you are denying the truth or just use the wishful thinking in
order to gain an attraction with bashing the transactions because
CouchDB doesn't have them. It's not a very good style.
cheers
Wojtek
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