"frebe" <fredrik_bertilsson_at_passagen.se> wrote in message
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> Did network databases provide better performance than relational
> databases? What are the practical advantages/disadvantages with network
> databases compared to relational databases?
>
> The network concept seem to be very popular in the OO comunity, so it
> would be interesting to know why network databases was abandoned in
> favour of relational databases.
> Fredrik Bertilsson
> http://butler.sourceforge.net
Here is an article with nontraditional perspective to network db demise:
H.V. Jagadish, Laks V.S. Lakshmanan, and Divesh Srivastava, Revisiting the
Hierarchical Data Model, IEICE Transactions on Information and Systems,
Vol. E00-A, No. 1, January 1999.
http://ftp.cs.concordia.ca/pub/laks/papers/ieice99.ps.gz
Still, the idea that you have to specify some path for *every* query seems
absurd today.
Received on Tue Jan 11 2005 - 11:58:10 CST
