Why Database-agnostic Enterprise Applications Are on the Way Out
Rick Veague and Dan Matthews - March 12, 2007

The shift to a service-oriented architecture (SOA) by many software vendors has changed the focus of application architecture. Although it is a given that it is best to separate an application into layers, the question remains whether the application should be tightly integrated with the database. The traditional approach, known as database agnosticism, allows the user to select an application and a database independently. While this approach may sound good at first, it sacrifices system performance and flexibility...