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

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 2 May 2003 19:21:58 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0305021821.63987210@posting.google.com> 





> You need to learn is that a graph is equivalent to a binary relation, 

> and incidentally the relational model is very well suited for guess 

> what: relations.




The reason the relational model is INefficient with highly variable
graphs is that the number of binary relationships can vary but the
relational model self imposes an arbitrary limitation of requiring the
same n in all tuples belonging to a relation (table).
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