Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

> 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.

And completely unstructured text had a sweeping impact prior to the web; the web would have been impossible prior to some critical mass of both data and technology. The web has no single designer, no single business function, and little purpose in common with most databases, relational or no. I think this is apples-and-oranges.

• erk