Re: S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments

Tobias Brox wrote:
> > "Scoring" evaluation or fuzzy evaluation could very well be part of an
 API.
>
> My ideas about fuzzyness is a bit different; your suggestion is to let a
> search return imperfect matches. I think that's quite important as
> well, as information almost never is stored perfect - there is always
> typos, missing data in columns, etc.
>
> My idea is to have scores and/or votes already stored in the database,
> as meta information for "data miners". This meta information might be
> either automatically, semiautomatically or manually inserted.

Wouldn't that be part of the implementation of the application?

Rating the importance of different object members (or record columns) for the result, would of course be necessary in the query interface.

Kind regards,
Carl

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Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com