Jason Hunter wrote:
> I think the reason you *don't* see that is the inherent risk of letting
> someone else run arbitrary code on your server. What if the user starts
> calculating Pi to 1,000,000,000 digits?
Perhaps we shouldn't have made XQuery Turing complete? (Side note: I'm
pretty sure XQuery is Turing complete. Has anyone proved it yet?)
> What if they start consuming
> disk or thrashing the disk IO? When you query against hundreds of gigs
> of content, you don't have to be malicious to mess things up.
>
Check out Ning some time. I have. Very cool stuff. Their backend is
actually Oracle and Lucene, though from our perspective it seems like a
native XML database would be a much better fit. However the ability to
let people run code on their servers is a pretty important part of their
value add.
Or for a less constrained appraoch, try Amazon EC2. Run any code you
like on their servers.
Yes, it's challenging; but I suspect there's a real business model in
there somewhere. :-)
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