Re: Mumps and post-relational
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:48:43 +0300
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"Laconic2" <laconic2_at_comcast.net> wrote in message
news:Bo2dnYZBb9bujkXdRVn-gw_at_comcast.com...
> Over in news:comp.databases there is a thread where what's being
discussed
> is a product called "Cache". Among the things it's being called is
> "post-relational". Somewhere in the discussion, it says that Cache has
> historical roots in MUMPS, and that MUMPS is multidiminsional.
>
> Is this true?
Cache is a MUMPS implementation with MUMPS, SQL and Object Oriented access
to data.
The basic data structure of Cache is a unbounded multidimensional array (a
tree).
The basic "atomic" data type is string.
It seems it is a distributed DBMS well suited for storing (semistructured
:-) healthcare data.
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