Re: Is it really that bad?

>> It is well known that today's relational systems are poor at such things
as
temporal data, naturally hierarchical systems like BOM, geographical and spacial data. While various extensions have been tried, it is not clear whether The Answer has yet been found for any of these.<<

It is well-known that SQL databases are poor at such things precisely because SQL is non-relational. "The Answer" as you call it was found thirty-two years ago, but the vast majority of practitioners are too stubbornly ignorant to recognize it. Received on Sun Mar 11 2001 - 05:14:16 CET