Beyond the RDBMS

Sean Gillies

2008-01-31 00:00

Martin Davis's post reminds me that the GIS industry, or at least the open source corner of it, still trails the Web community in thinking about data. I teased Paul Ramsey about baking in the assumption of SQL last summer. There wasn't a presentation at FOSS4G 2007 that questioned the RDBMS paradigm. N = 1 thinking prevails.

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Re: Beyond the RDBMS

Author: Stefan

Sean, You wrote "There wasn't a presentation at FOSS4G 2007 that questioned the RDBMS paradigm". Well, it depends on what you mean by presentation: There was at least a poster about the object database db4o (http://www.foss4g2007.org/presentations/posters/). My impression there was, that most people - even from open source - either ignore or don't really consider to go beyond RDBMS but only want a confirmation that there's nothing beyond RDBMS... :->

Re: Beyond the RDBMS

Author: Sean

I missed that poster. Now I know that there was at least one other object database user there besides me.