Re: database market share 2003

From: Daniel Morgan <damorgan_at_x.washington.edu>
Date: Wed, 16 Jun 2004 13:52:15 -0700
Message-ID: <1087419155.249881@yasure>

Mark Townsend wrote:

> >
>

>> Oracle got fewer points than DB2 (and they would
>> probably get even fewer points from Codd today since Oracle seems to have
>> moved away from relational in many respects).
>>

>
> I've seen you make this point before
> http://groups.google.com/groups?hl=en&lr=&ie=UTF-8&selm=1Jqab.76%24ZR1.81776%40news.uswest.net
>
>
> I challenged you at the time, and can't remember if you ever came back
> with an example - so exactly what is it in Oracle that you think has
> moved away from the relational model ?

This may well send a few blue suiters into apoplexy but I'll list just a few:

user defined data types with inheritance and methods object-relational views
object tables
array processing

Of which I am very thankful for all.

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