Quote:Hm! Why I am reading all over the web that relational databases cannot meet today's requirements?
My last post actually supports the fact that relational databases aren't the answer to everything. By the
nature of the complexity of the software behind one, they will unlikely ever surpass a random access flat
file indexed by a hash table.
That doesn't exclude their usefulness. Just like you wouldn't use a jack hammer to put a 16 penny nail into
a 2 x 6, it still has it's use.
If you study the internet, You also find plenty of claims that Microsoft windows 10 or whatever version
you'd like it the best thing since sliced bread, even though it still is not as robust as the first Unix I used
at Bell Labs back in the early 80's.
In my opinion, windows is not the best OS, but it is the most popular., and it has it's use.
final note, when someone writes: relational databases cannot meet today's requirements, they should
list what those requirement are. Seems to me I heard the same argument back when C. J. Date came
out with SQL/DS and DB2.
It's all relative