Re: How to model searchable properties of an entity

From: Neo <neo55592_at_hotmail.com>
Date: 20 Aug 2004 08:04:21 -0700
Message-ID: <4b45d3ad.0408200704.41e36f4a@posting.google.com>

> I have a sneaking suspicion that there is a grand unifying theory that
> covers both OO and relational theory.

While it may not be the grandest of all theories, the Thing Model unifies to a large degree a number of models to represent things including Relational, OO, MV, and XML.

> I see relational systems as accessing data using Cartesian co-ordinates
> and OO systems as accessing the same data using polar co-ordinates. I'm
> waiting for someone to invent relational geometry.

In terms of your description, XDb2 can access each "data" from a variable number of coordinates. See www.xdb2.com for an experimental implementation of the Thing Model. Received on Fri Aug 20 2004 - 10:04:21 CDT