Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

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>>What does orthogonal mean? Does it mean that the intersecting vectors of
>>relational and performance never ever really intersect? No.
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> It means that they are mutually independent.
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> It is a rather frequent term in computing science. See this:
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> http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=orthogonal%20instruction%20set
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Alfredo,

Without looking at this link I can tell what exactly this article will say about the orthogonality of the ISA and memory architecture. It does not mean that the two are totally independent. It means that there is as much independence as there can be.

Drop the airs.

• Dan