Rating something as "Poor" is relative to the application

HCL Notes/Domino 8.5 Forum (includes Notes Traveler)

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Hi,
I agree for the scenario you painted, which is highly transactional, Notes is not up to that in its present form. The Notes datastore (inside the NSF) is optimized for unstructured data. This makes it ideal for some things, and yet "poor" for other things. I wouldn't say its "poor" across the board in general. In various Notes training 101 course they talk about what Notes is and what its good for. They use an airline booking application (lots of realtime transactions) as an example of an application that is outside the scope of Notes.
What is required to extend Notes to the type of transactional applications you are referring to is an RDB backend. NSFDB2 was an attempt to go there. You can do additional things using LCLSX which can talk to an external DB. I am unclear if the LCLSX api has transations and rollbacks, but I recall seeing that at one time. Whether the next iteration of xpages with the ability to talk to external non-Domino data will make Notes/Domino a candidate for transacdtional applications like you describe is yet to be seen. Possibly those on the Notes Dev team who are working on the external data programming while I write this will be able to shed light on this. However, I doubt they can share freely at this time as I suspect IBM will not want to deliver too much info on this prematurely, until they determine exactly how far the implementation can go because they are already feeling the heat from those customers who put their eggs into the NSFDB2 basket and feel they were burned. I supposed that's what this thread is about ultimately...to jolt IBM into responding with their plan.

Feedback response number WEBB7NVLPX created by ~Gus Chukikonyoni on 02/02/2009

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