Re: database design method

From: Lauri Pietarinen <lauri.pietarinen_at_atbusiness.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Nov 2002 21:54:33 +0200
Message-ID: <3DD3FF79.6C9AA657@atbusiness.com>

> No, but implementing a DBMS is one of the hardest things around. It's right
> up there with building games, compilers and operating systems. But perhaps
> the term DBMS doesn't apply to Dataphor since it doesn't really have its own
> storage engine. Or does it?

That's true. They use SQL-databases as a storage engines and they translate the D4-statements into SQL (that was perhaps a bit simplified statement).

They have currently concentrated on implementing the TTM-stuff and on an application generator that "understands" the db-schema (and hence generates a lot of stuff "for free").

I understand that they have plans to build their own storage engine.

regards,
Lauri Pietarinen Received on Thu Nov 14 2002 - 13:54:33 CST