in reply to (Real) Database Design

autarch has thought of extending Alzabo so that it is not only a OO-RDBMS wrapper + transactions, it also has the data store as well. So that is near to being a database as-is.

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Re^2: (Real) Database Design
by autarch (Hermit) on Jul 16, 2004 at 00:59 UTC

    I wouldn't say it's near it at all. My idea is a pipe dream at the moment.

    I will say that all this discussion of the actual storage layout is somewhat missing the point. Ideally, a DBMS should be able to store data in many different ways, allowing the DBA to optimize various tables/indexes as needed. Even better, the DBMS should figure out the best way to store data based on usage patterns.

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