Thanks! Your reply was very informative. I suppose I'm still a bit confused as to what constitutes "relational" in a database. For instance, in example #2, it's a database of academic questions (ever heard of Quizbowl?) that include the main category, subcategory, type of question, question, answer(s), and the author. I will want to do a number of different lookups: by category (or subcategory), by author, grab all the answers (so we can avoid duplicates)... I don't know exactly why, but this seems like a possible candidate for the RDBM, but I'm really not familiar enough with them to decide. :-/

In reply to Re^2: Which databases to use? by wink
in thread Which databases to use? by wink

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