Re: VIEWS compared to Nodes as Windows into data

On Mon, 03 May 2004 15:37:19 -0300,
=?iso-8859-1?q?Leandro_Guimar=E3es_Faria_Corsetti_Dutra?= <leandro_at_dutra.fastmail.fm> wrote:

>Em Thu, 29 Apr 2004 20:13:28 +0000, Alfredo Novoa escreveu:
>
>>>For comparison purposes, could you give an example of a DBMS design that
>>>is not obsolete?
>>
>> The one I am developing :)
>
> Details?

Well, it is a very modest project. The progress is slow but IMO it is promising. It is a full time project since the last week :)

I am implementing view updating and I want to implement always updated snapshots and very flexible physical database design, semantic optimization, type specialization by constraint, etc.

> Seriously, I suppose you must be working on a competitor to
>Alphora Dataphor, but on POSIX?

It is not a direct competitor because it is a complete DBMS that does not need an SQL DBMS behind the scenes. And the core is 'inspired' in the Transrelational Model.

I am implementing it on the .Net framework.

> Are you sticking to either D4 or
>Tutorial D?

The language is almost identical to Tutorial D.

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  Alfredo Received on Mon May 03 2004 - 15:31:21 CDT