Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!yale!bunker!jam
From: jam@bunker.UUCP (James A. McFarland)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: MDBS Inc.'s MDBS III post-*relational* ??????
Summary: Definition of "post-relational" in terms of MDBS III
Keywords: post-relational, MDBS III, definition
Message-ID: <4167@bunker.UUCP>
Date: 4 Oct 88 18:41:25 GMT
References: <987@mdbs.UUCP> <2452@rtech.rtech.com> <1597@mcgp1.UUCP>
Reply-To: jam@bunker.UUCP (James A. McFarland)
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In article <1597@mcgp1.UUCP> fst@mcgp1.UUCP (Skip Tavakkolian) writes:
>In article <2452@rtech.rtech.com>, edg@squid.rtech.com (Ed Goldman) writes:
>> In article <987@mdbs.UUCP> kbc@mdbs.UUCP (Kevin Castleberry) writes:
>> >MDBS III (a post-relational high performance dbs)
>               ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> Sheesh, c'mon you you guys.  There's nothing relational about MDBS III
>[deleted]
>> -edg-
>
>I have had this question for about two years know;
> [more desires to know deleted ...]
>
>Fariborz ``Skip'' Tavakkolian
>
	DISCLAIMER:

	I am not an expert, and only the source (folks at mdbs) can
	say for sure.  (NOTE: I am not sure why Kevin C. of mdbs
	technical support [[hi kevin, it's jim from your math class]]
	has not periodically posted the answer to this question, 
	but currently I think their usenet node is off-line for a 
	short time)


	As far as I have been able to rationalize it, the term
	"post-relational" is supposed mean NOT relational.
	The name is supposed to imply that it is conceptually a 
	successor to relational technology.  In other words, 
	"after-relational."


	An analogy might be:

		"relational" is to "post-relational" as
		"3GL"        is to "4GL"
	
	(be careful here, we are not talking about 3GL's and
	 4GL's, we are talking about databases)

Kevin, if you are out there, please correct or confirm my theories.

-jam
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