Re: relational tables and objects

On 31 Oct 2002 00:26:09 +0100, hidders_at_REMOVE.THIS.uia.ua.ac.be (Jan Hidders) wrote:

>Just for my understanding, your library doesn't provide persistency, does
>it? So since your data is going to be in main memory, why would you want
>to represent your data in the relational model?

The relational model is the best known form for representing and manipulating data.

Where the physical data were stored (RAM or hard disk) is irrelevant for that.

> That is not what the
>relational model was designed for and in almost all cases a more specific data
>structure will perform better.

The relational model was not designed for hard disks nor RAM. It is a logical model.

Performance and the relational model are independent. A main memory relational DBMS may perform as fast as any kind of main memory DBMS.

And performance is not the unique issue.

Alfredo Received on Thu Oct 31 2002 - 01:34:37 CET