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From: ben@hobbes.sybase.com (ben ullrich)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Is an RDBMS a real world solution to data processing?
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Date: 11 Dec 89 18:27:55 GMT
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i think jon's suggestions are more to the point, but on an even grander scale,
what do tom's necessarily have to do with whether a system is relational or
not?  what i mean to say is that relational doesn't necessarily mean slow;
indeed, my favorite database prides itself on being as fast as possible, and it
thus works well under most circumstances.  those other circumstances,
in which the database churns away forever, usually occur due to user
error or a bad database design.  i think these problems are just as
possible in a non-relational system, one without relational's
benefits.  to me, it is fundamentally necessary to have the FLEXIBLE
dbms under all applications, instead of an inflexible, proprietary, flat-design
index structure.

..ben
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