Re: Reminder, blatant ad

dawn wrote:
>
> [...] If you were writing
> a "data processing 101" type of application, such as a "Pet Store" app
> (if you are familiar with the Java and other Pet Store examples) or the
> Joke Response System described on my web site
> http://www.tincat-group.com/swdev/jokesreq.html and you had complete
> freedom in tool and standards selections, would you be more likely to
> choose a Relational Model to work with your DBMS or an "XML data model"
> or other model that includes attributes with list values?

For the Joke Response System I would choose RM-oriented tools, as I don't think that the data and the associated access patterns are evidently hierarchically organized.

> Additionally, if you chose a SQL-DBMS tool for practical purposes such
> as wide-spread use and availability, is there something lacking from
> current tools that use alternative data models (e.g. XML database,
> Cache', PICK databases such as IBM U2, Berkeley-DB,...) that would
> cause you to reconsider if such features magically appeared?

Hmmm, data independence would be an important factor.

• Jan Hidders