Re: Network databases
Date: Wed, 12 Jan 2005 14:09:18 GMT
Message-ID: <41e52b2b.12705953_at_news-read2.maxwell.syr.edu>
On 11 Jan 2005 08:14:14 -0800, lynn_at_garlic.com wrote:
>wasn't so much about the information organization ... but about the
>physical implementation. the hierarchical/network implementations from
>the 50/60s used direct physical pointers ...
And logical pointers.
> while relational used
>indexes. The direct physical pointers increased human administrative
>workload ...
And the logical pointers increase the coders workload (and the cost) in orders of magnitude.
> but was faster for the standard case ... being able to go
>directly to the desired data. relational reduced the human
>administrative effort but increased the overhead to get to the desired
>data and typically doubled the physical storage requirements (both
>space and processing overhead introduced by the indexes).
The RDBMSs moved a lot of processing from the apps to the DBMS, and the global processing load was not necessarily increased, in fact with a good optimizer it migth be reduced.
>the physical pointer implementation vis-a-vis indexes can be
>independent of the information organization (aka it is possible to do
>physical implementation using indexes for both hierarchical and network
>information organizations).
Regards Received on Wed Jan 12 2005 - 15:09:18 CET