Re: JVM in the database

Yes, Tim is right. XML stuff in the database is implemented using Java. Whatever is horribly slow (multi-media, spatial) is implemented using JVM in the database.

Regards

On 11/18/19 7:12 AM, Tim Hall wrote:
> I think he means not applying the Java patches. The combo is a Java
> and a "all the rest patch". You can choose not to apply the Java one.
>
> Regarding the "we don't use Java in the database" point, are you sure
> about that? Over the years a bunch of functionality has been
> implemented using the JVM. Some things subsequently got incorporated
> into the kernel. Some didn't. I don't know off the top of my head, but
> I remember the early XML stuff (DBMS_XMLQUERY) and InterMedia used the
> JVM under the hood. While it's in there, there is a possibility you
> are using it.
>
> Cheers
>
> Tim...
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 11:17 AM Sayan Malakshinov <xt.and.r_at_gmail.com
> <mailto:xt.and.r_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> Hi Steve,
>
> Hm, does it require anything else besides critical patch updates?
> Or don't you install them at all?
>
> On Mon, Nov 18, 2019 at 1:16 AM Steve Harville
> <steve.harville_at_gmail.com <mailto:steve.harville_at_gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> We never install Java in the database because we don't like
> doing all those Java security patches.
>
> On Sun, Nov 17, 2019 at 2:33 PM Mark W. Farnham <mwf_at_rsiz.com
> <mailto:mwf_at_rsiz.com>> wrote:
>
> I believe that for most of the things that are frequently
> done in java, execution of the code on the client (and
> significantly not on RDBMS licensed cpu resource) is fine
> (if not superior), while the tight coupling of PL/SQL with
> the Oracle kernel and the avoidance of network trips and
> latency makes PL/SQL a superior choice for things that
> could in theory be done with java stored in the database
> and executed there on licensed cpus.
>
> In theory once the human readable syntax is translated
> into some sort of pcode, machine code, or rdbms calls, any
> source language could in theory be stored in and executed
> the same way PL/SQL is. Storing the source code in the
> database does avoid looking for it <wherever> if and when
> security or cross dependencies require a program unit to
> be recompiled, but that is merely (at least for the
> language structures that are compatible) merely providing
> the language syntax parser as available to the RDBMS.
> Common runtime additional passes after the language syntax
> is out of the way is something that was becoming very
> effective in the mid 1970s on timesharing operating
> systems. With a 7 pass optimizing PL/I subset G compiler
> available that was a superset of Pascal, for example, you
> could build a Pascal compiler that generated PL/SQL, which
> was then handed to the PL/I compiler.
>
> I’m not holding my breath.
>
> mwf
>
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>
> From my experience, JVM in the database gets very little
> use. I am not sure why is that, Java is the new COBOL and
> everybody is doing applications in Java. OO programming
> which is very useful and very modern, as you can see here:
>
> https://cacm.acm.org/careers/238279-object-oriented-programmingthe-trillion-dollar-disaster/fulltext
>
> is mostly done in Java and Python. Just about everybody is
> doing Java. However, the Java OO orientation might be the
> answer why people don't use it in the database. When you
> write a trigger, a function or a procedure and store it in
> the database, you want it to be as streamlined and
> efficient as possible. You don't want all that OO chaff
> that defines strings, regular expressions or alike. PL/SQL
> which is mostly procedural in nature, is far better suited
> for DB work than all that OO clutter in Java. Having said
> that, I am sure that in the long run, Java will prevail.
> Databases on Millennium Falcon will probably run Java
> internal procedures, which may bring into question
> completing the Kessel run in less than 12 parsecs.
> However, at that point I will have 6' of earth on top of
> me and will not care.
>
> On 11/16/19 2:06 AM, Noveljic Nenad wrote:
>
> For what purposes would you use JVM in the database?
>
> Best regards,
>
> Nenad
>
> https://nenadnoveljic.com/blog/
>
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