Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases
Date: Sun, 7 Nov 2004 09:24:26 -0600
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"Fredrik Bertilsson" <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se> wrote in message
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> Sometimes when debating with OO people they claim that network and
> hierarchic databases are better than relational databases. I can't see
> any problem space that would be easier to model with the network or
> hierarchic model.
What about the web? It is based on a graph model, with links from one node to another, with each node being a function mapping a URL to the value(s) associated with it. I doubt that a relational model would have had the type of sweeping impact of the di-graph of functions that is the web. --dawn
> The only thing that could be better with network and
> hierarchic databases is performace in some special situations, but
> otherwise I can't see any advantages with these paradigs, or? What are
> the advantages with network and hierarchic databases vs relational?
>
> Fredrik Bertilsson
> http://butler.sourceforge.net
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