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Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

From: Alfredo Novoa <anovoa_at_ncs.es>
Date: Tue, 09 Nov 2004 17:40:04 +0100
Message-ID: <5hs1p0lojg8f6jln7d3km1622s86l98uou@4ax.com> 





On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:39:10 GMT, "Dan" <guntermann_at_verizon.com>
wrote:



>Traversing by pointers is very, very fast.




That's why pointers are used to implement RDBMSs.



>There is not doubt about it. 

>However, there is a huge downside to hardcoding a data model by using 

>pointers and fixed data segments.  This should be obvious.




We can hardcode a relational database if we want.




Regards
Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 10:40:04 CST












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