Comments on: Why SQL sucks for MMORPGs

By: Brandon Thomson

Brandon Thomson — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 21:06:46 +0000

Interesting thoughts. I'm using Google App Engine's datastore partially as an object database for Conquer-on-Contact (which is still under construction, but has some live players). This mode of operation is not supported and gets me some ridicule from the community but it works.

By: tieTYT

tieTYT — Fri, 01 May 2009 23:11:28 +0000

You may want to check out couchDB which is neither. It’s “document oriented”. Don’t ask me what that means

Back to SQL databases. One thing that’s cool about SQL is that you can query for things you never thought of looking for while you were building your schema. And, you can do it in a relatively convenient language. Maybe object dbs have these features too though.

By: owen

owen — Sun, 08 Mar 2009 00:08:52 +0000

I see what your saying but the problem is that once you go Object Database you lose the features of SQL. So it is not that SQL sucks, its just that SQL doesn’t do OOP. And in fact OOP goes against all that SQL represents.

But as in any client server based application, the network plays a big part in latency

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