Semi-structured data

From: Costin Cozianu <c_cozianu_at_hotmail.com>
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2004 16:42:29 -0700
Message-ID: <2juir5F15r9gpU1_at_uni-berlin.de>


Alfredo Novoa wrote:

> On Tue, 22 Jun 2004 17:48:43 +0300, "x" <x-false_at_yahoo.com> wrote:
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>>It seems it is a distributed DBMS well suited for storing (semistructured
>>:-) healthcare data.

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> It is not well suited for data management.
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> Semistructured is an oxymoron. It is like half bit or half pixel.
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> Regards
> Alfredo

No, it is not.

Semistructured data has an obvious meaning, usefulness and applications, which is accepted by the overwhelming majority of CS community.

It has some exaggerated hype attached to it, maybe, but it is a concept that is here to stay. Received on Thu Jun 24 2004 - 01:42:29 CEST

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