LineVoltageHalogen wrote:
> There is not much out there with regards to this illusive animal. I
> was hoping that someone here might have some descriptive information on
> what an Extensible Database is or theoretically does?
>
> Regards, TFD.
>
I think the simplest answer is that it is a marketing term. Having said
that, it seems to have been used at different times to mean different
things. In the early days of object-oriented databases, it meant a
dbms--really a query facility--that could support multiple models. More
recently it has had meaning similar to virtual database system, that is
a system that can access both local and remote, heterogeneous databases
(say relational and xml) as if they were all local. This is in a sense
simply an extension of the previous sense since it does require support
for multiple models.
Received on Wed Dec 08 2004 - 16:11:38 CST
