Re: GDBM vs. RDBMS Research

Those are compared as paper airplan and 747. I can't name a single feature that RDBMS doesn't have and GDBM has.

Alexey Popov <javaby_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote in message news:<3D6A3587.9000409_at_yahoo.co.uk>...
> Hi Jan,
>
> You do not understand.
> GDBM is GNU Database Manager. It's a library.
>
> Jan.Hidders wrote:
>
> > In article <3D6A1DD9.4090000_at_yahoo.co.uk>,
> > Alexey Popov <javaby_at_yahoo.co.uk> wrote:
> >
> >>I need public opinion about GDBM in comparison with RDBMS.
> >>
> >
> > Those are not two distinct classes. A Geographical DBMS might be defined as
> > any DBMS that has special support for geographical data in terms of
> > querying, indexing and representing. So it could be an extended RDBMS or
> > OODBMS, or ORDBMS, or something else entirely. In fact the extension might
> > even stay within the particular paradigm of the DBMS and for example
> > for the relational model define only a few extra domains with special
> > operators. So it is a bit as if you are asking how convertibles compare to
> > Mercedeses.
> >
> > -- Jan Hidders
Received on Mon Aug 26 2002 - 23:02:58 CEST