Re: relational tables and objects
Date: 2 Nov 2002 01:06:21 +0100
Message-ID: <3dc316fd$1_at_news.uia.ac.be>
Alfredo Novoa wrote:
>On 1 Nov 2002 17:21:52 +0100, hidders_at_REMOVE.THIS.uia.ua.ac.be (Jan
>Hidders) wrote:
>
>>Of course, but in this case we were not talking about a shared data bank
>>and probably not even a large one. If in addition to that your data is
>>always in memory and there is no ad-hoc access, then I am beginning to
>>have my doubts.
>
>It may be ad-hoc accessed from the application code.
Yes, could be.
>Ad-hoc is not the same as not hardcoded.
Agreed.
>It is true that it is not a shared data bank, but the easy of manage
>of the relational data banks may be useful here, including the
>automatic optimization of access data paths.
Well, if they had all that it would be close to a (single user) RDBMS. I'm not sure if that is what they had in mind.
- Jan Hidders