Re: I think that relational DBs are dead. See link to my article inside

From: Ed Prochak <edprochak_at_gmail.com>
Date: 3 Jul 2006 10:20:51 -0700
Message-ID: <1151947251.883285.47990_at_p79g2000cwp.googlegroups.com>


Dmitry Shuklin wrote:
> Hi David,
>
> I understand that You protect your favorite technology. RDBMS is a good
> DB but not prefect. For example, a table is just a special case of a
> graph or network. So network databases can do all that can do RDB. But
> RDB can't do all that can do NDB.

Give just ONE example. I sincerely doubt there is anything you can do in a network model DB that cannot be done at least as well in a Relational model DB.

> Even I by my self can make research implementation of network DB which
> successfully emulates RDBMS. I have even implemented object
> identification synonymy/homonymy conception and undo/redo transactions.
> Everybody can download it from
> http://www.shuklin.com/ai/ht/en/cerebrum/ and see results of my
> experiments. So i fully assured that i am right in general view. Of
> course some small special ideas can be wrong.
>
> WBR,
> Dmitry Shuklin, Ph.D

Sorry, but all I see on that page is a couple claims, no supporting data. I will not download some unknown executable. Make a case without having us run your program for you.

Example how did you conclude:
"the usage of relational database systems to solve this kind of problems is not applicable" ?

I added comp.databases.theory as that is the group you should likely be talking to.

  Ed Received on Mon Jul 03 2006 - 19:20:51 CEST

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