Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

From: Alfredo Novoa <anovoa_at_ncs.es>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:36:44 +0100
Message-ID: <les1p0dojsijobg21dclcbej3bvd70b2ba@4ax.com>

On Mon, 8 Nov 2004 16:15:00 -0500, "Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote:

>What's the area of disagreement? Performance? Indexes slow things down,
>compared to graphs of bundled pointers.

This is the typical model-implementation confusion.

Relational databases can be implemented using graphs of bundled pointers or with any other structure that you want.

BTW it is also false that the existing SQL DBMSs are slower than the existing network DBMSs. They are sometimes slower and sometimes faster. It depends on many things.

Regards Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 10:36:44 CST