Re: Relational vs network vs hierarchic databases

On Tue, 09 Nov 2004 08:39:10 GMT, "Dan" <guntermann_at_verizon.com> wrote:

>Traversing by pointers is very, very fast.

That's why pointers are used to implement RDBMSs.

>There is not doubt about it.
>However, there is a huge downside to hardcoding a data model by using
>pointers and fixed data segments. This should be obvious.

We can hardcode a relational database if we want.

Regards Received on Tue Nov 09 2004 - 17:40:04 CET