> 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.
Received on Tue Nov 16 2004 - 08:50:18 CST
