Re: The Transrelational Model

Neo wrote:
> What does it mean for a database to be multi-dimensional?
> What is a dimension in a database?
> Aren't most existing dbs multi-dimensional already?

I'm just a lurker, but since no one wants to speak let me say what I found out. Of course, multidimensional can mean anything but in relation   to Transrelational's patents it means method of storing data.

Let's say you have a set of strings. Traditionally you store them somehow and manage ther order inplace or somewhere else. But you can do it another way: create a compressed multidimensional bit array of all possible strings. Now you don't actually store data nor manage indices, you just set a bit in this MD array for the string in set; string becomes a position in MD space, not a value (hmm, what about floats?).

Hope I got this right :)

Regards,
Karel Miklav Received on Wed Jun 04 2003 - 14:37:06 CEST