Re: Amazon's "Simple" Database
From: David Cressey <cressey73_at_verizon.net>
Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:52:40 GMT
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Date: Tue, 18 Dec 2007 11:52:40 GMT
Message-ID: <cwO9j.6035$qv1.2023_at_trndny01>
"JOG" <jog_at_cs.nott.ac.uk> wrote in message news:79a9b9d8-9686-4f89-a13d-1b3340936d8f_at_b1g2000pra.googlegroups.com...
> While in principle a globally accessible database sounds like a great
> idea, closer reading yields...
I wonder. Is it really a "globally accessible database" that is the holy
grail here?
Or is it something more like a "universally accepted data sublanguage"?
The thing that makes XML attractive to some people is not that it would be a good basis on which to build a dtabase, but that it seems convenient for data exchange. I shudder at the idea of XML becoming the universal data sublanguage, but it sure is growing by leaps and bounds. Received on Tue Dec 18 2007 - 12:52:40 CET