Relational Databases Lack Relationships
Date: Thu, 22 Oct 2015 18:20:18 +0200
Message-ID: <slrnn2i362.sce.eric_at_bruno.deptj.eu>
Following a recent catastrophic computer failure I found myself having to browse the internet with the interruption of many more advertisements than I am used to. One amazingly pervasive ad offered me a free download of a book about graph databases. Obviously from a company that makes a
"graph database system", whatever that is. Still, after about the 47th
viewing, why not, I might learn something.
What I have learnt so far is that they use the subject of this post as a section heading, followed by:
"For several decades, developers have tried to accommodate connected, semi-structured datasets inside relational databases. But whereas relational databases were initially designed to codify paper forms and tabular structures—something they do exceedingly well—they struggle when attempting to model the ad hoc, exceptional relationships
that crop up in the real world. Ironically, relational databases deal poorly with relationships."
Aside from needing to find out what on earth they mean by
"semi-structured" and "ad-hoc, exceptional relationships", has anyone
ever heard, from any other source, that codifying paper forms and tabular
structures is what relational databases were designed to do?
I'm not actually sure how much I care, but...
Eric
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