Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!att!pacbell!lll-tis!helios.ee.lbl.gov!nosc!trout.nosc.mil!broman From: broman@schroeder.nosc.mil (Vincent Broman) Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: MDBS Inc.'s MDBS III post-*relational* ?????? Message-ID: Date: 3 Oct 88 01:27:19 GMT References: <987@mdbs.UUCP> <2452@rtech.rtech.com> <1597@mcgp1.UUCP> Sender: nobody@nosc.NOSC.MIL Reply-To: broman@nosc.mil Organization: none Lines: 9 In-reply-to: fst@mcgp1.UUCP's message of 2 Oct 88 03:45:18 GMT From very limited reading I gather that MDBS is an "extended-network" DBMS, based on DB theory more recent than the network and relational DB models, both of which originated around 1970. So "post-relational" means a model developed after the "relational" model. Supposedly, this would be a superior model, but not a descendent. Vincent Broman, code 632, Naval Ocean Systems Center, San Diego, CA 92152, USA Phone: +1 619 553 1641 Internet: broman@nosc.mil Uucp: sdcsvax!nosc!broman