On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:37, Mike Champion wrote:
> --- Frank <> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:18,
> > wrote:
>
> >
> > Oh and for what it's worth, I have plenty of
> > anecdotal information that
> > bibliographic metadata was a very hard problem for
> > the relational model.
> > It may have been solved in the last few years, but
> > it was still a
> > storage-eating performance killer ten years after
> > the RM was the 'best
> > practice' for 'widgets in warehouses.'
>
> Is there any chance that someone could elaborate?
> I've heard that there are lots of these anecdotes, but
> I don't know any details.
>
> Certainly a straightforward normalization of a serious
> document-oriented schema such as DocBook would lead to
> a nightmarish number of tables, but I'm not clear
> offhand on why normalizing just the metadata would be
> such a problem.
>
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