Re: Testing Various Data Models?

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Wed, 10 Mar 2004 04:29:26 GMT
Message-ID: <GQw3c.222763$jk2.857968@attbi_s53>

"Dawn M. Wolthuis" <dwolt_at_tincat-group.com> wrote in message news:c2l1dq$2q3$1_at_news.netins.net...

> I would very much like to see such a competition because my intuition,
> without sufficient scientifically gathered emperical data, is that the
> relational model ought to be retired.

That's kind of like saying set theory ought to be retired.

I really think the intuition you're having has nothing to do with the data model per se. I think it has everything to do with the kinds of tools and integration you are used to. These tend not to be so great when mixing, say, C++ or Java with Oracle or MySQL.

Marshall Received on Tue Mar 09 2004 - 22:29:26 CST