Re: The TransRelational Model: Clarifications

From: Mikito Harakiri <mikharakiri_at_iahu.com>
Date: Mon, 15 Nov 2004 14:17:52 -0800
Message-ID: <N4amd.34$9x5.103@news.oracle.com>

"Alfredo Novoa" <anovoa_at_ncs.es> wrote in message news:sdvhp0hpmpgk0ughmjkolk7dc5onbqmok8_at_4ax.com...
> Even if a new proposal is significantly worse by a constant factor on
> the simplest cases, it could be very interesting whether it is a lot
> better on the complex cases where the traditional approaches perform
> horribly.
>
> Most practicioers tend to avoid complex queries due to the performance
> issues. An implementation which makes performance independent to the
> complexity of the queries would be an important advance.

"Performance independent of the complexity of the queries" sounds indeed unbelievable to anybody with traditional database implementation background.

Also, is there such thing as query optimization in TRM? Received on Mon Nov 15 2004 - 16:17:52 CST