Re: Hierarchical data models

From: rpost <rpost_at_pcwin518.campus.tue.nl>
Date: Sat, 15 Aug 2009 16:46:39 +0000 (UTC)
Message-ID: <h66opf$2svb$4_at_mud.stack.nl>


Nilone wrote:

>I'm looking for any references, discussion or theory about
>hierarchical models for situations such as residential addresses,
>geopolitical subdivisions, corporate structures, military ranks, file
>systems, type systems, etc.

Do you mean something like this?

  ftp://ftp.software.ibm.com/software/data/u2/pubs/whitepapers/nested_rdbms.pdf

>I'm specifically interested in models that can recognize partial
>correlations between subtrees, e.g. most/all countries have cities,
[...]

What does that mean? Should the data model itself express such quantitative correlations, or only the query language?

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Reinier
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