Re: Non-text database theory

"Rune Allnor" <allnor_at_tele.ntnu.no> wrote in message news:cace1763-432e-42b8-bd28-3e4f62847f9c_at_e39g2000hsf.googlegroups.com...
> Hi all.
>
> This might be off topic for this group; if so please direct me to a
> more
> appropriate group.
>
> I have 20 years of programming experience (hobby / personal scale)
> and
> am getting my feet wet with databases for the first time. The project
> at
> hand needs a database to handle large amounts of data. The data are
> measured by sonar and amounts to the hundreds of GB, so one would
> prefer to save the data on some binary format to save time on the
> text <-> binary conversions.
>
> The textbooks I have found on database theory solely deal with text
> data, i.e. data that are stored as tables in text files, which I
> suppose
> is OK for educational purposes.
>
> 1) Where can I find material on 'real-life' databases which deal with
> the
> storage and handling of binary data?
> 2) Are there database implementations which are better suited for my
> application than others? I would like to keep the application
> platform
> independent, and use C++ as my programming language.
>
> Rune

You will be fine. Find a copy of "Handbook of Relational Database Design (Fleming, von Halle), old school but relevant.

Evan Received on Sat Sep 13 2008 - 18:46:25 CEST