Re: The IDS, the EDS and the DBMS

From: Marshall Spight <mspight_at_dnai.com>
Date: Sun, 05 Sep 2004 18:36:34 GMT
Message-ID: <S0J_c.245720$8_6.186998@attbi_s04>

"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message news:_IudnQ-JSqYmcqTcRVn-rw_at_comcast.com...

> Yes. In particular, wouldn't it be great is there were a tool called a
> PEDMS (persistent encapsulated data management system) that would be a
> DIFFERENT TOOL than a DBMS? Maybe it wouldn't even need an SQL port or a
> built in data dictionary. Should be lots cheaper than a DBMS.

If that's all you want, then you could just use serialization to a file. But you're giving up a lot.

And don't forget Spight's Law, aka You Have to Have a Database:

"Any sufficently complicated application that doesn't use a formal database contains an ad-hoc, non-declarative, corruption-prone implementation of half of a database." (After Greenspun's Tenth Rule of Programming.)

Marshall Received on Sun Sep 05 2004 - 13:36:34 CDT