Re: Do Data Models Need to built on a Mathematical Concept?

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 2 May 2003 14:32:37 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0305021332.436c1d36@posting.google.com>

> > Just as Newton's Theories were
> > displaced by Quantum Theories, so will the Relational Data Model.
> >
> It was not exactly displaced, was it? It was just refined...

Yes and No. In some applications, Newton's methods provide results that are "close-enough" and a lot easier to calculate. In other applications, Newton's methods produces results that are "way-off" and useless.

Similarly, in some applications (which at the present seems to be the majority), the relational methods provides results that are "close-enough" and infact better than most other methods.

But, there are applications (which at the present seem to be a minority) where the relational methods results are not satisfactory such as highly variable/complex data structures that could be thought of as graphs. IMO, the model used by the human brain is some refinement of the relational model. Received on Fri May 02 2003 - 16:32:37 CDT