I'd be curious if anyone actually used it -- is it obscure because it is a bad idea or because it didn't offer much more over the shell, etc.?
"There are many database systems available for UNIX. But almost all are software prisons that you must get into and leave the power of UNIX behind. Most were developed on operating systems other than UNIX. Consequently their developers had very few software features to build upon, and wrote the functionality they needed directly, without regard for the features provided by the operating system. The resulting database systems are large, complex programs which degrade total system performance, especially when they are run in a multi-user environment. UNIX provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the functions that come standard with UNIX. Programs and philosophies carried over from other systems put walls between the user and UNIX, and the power of UNIX is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators, is the fourth generation language most appropriate to the UNIX environment. 1. Fourth Generation Systems In recent years, a variety of developments in programming language design have emerged. Object-oriented languages are becoming common, and languages explicitly supporting multiple tasks and inter-task communication are also gaining popularity. "
NoSQL is a fast, portable, relational database management system without arbitrary limits, (other than memory and processor speed) that runs under, and interacts with, the UNIX1 Operating System. It uses the "Operator-Stream Paradigm" described in "Unix Review", March, 1991, page 24, entitled "A 4GL Language". There are a number of "operators" that each perform a unique function on the data. The "stream" is supplied by the UNIX Input/Output redirection mechanism. Therefore each operator processes some data and then passes it along to the next operator via the UNIX pipe function. This is very efficient as UNIX pipes are implemented in memory. NoSQL is compliant with the "Relational Model".
Interesting, didn't know about that one. It looks more modern and usable.
I'm trying to think if I would actually download it and try to use it. Or I could just keep on making use of that all the hard-earned sed/awk magic line noise. :)
http://en.scientificcommons.org/43495509
I'd be curious if anyone actually used it -- is it obscure because it is a bad idea or because it didn't offer much more over the shell, etc.?
"There are many database systems available for UNIX. But almost all are software prisons that you must get into and leave the power of UNIX behind. Most were developed on operating systems other than UNIX. Consequently their developers had very few software features to build upon, and wrote the functionality they needed directly, without regard for the features provided by the operating system. The resulting database systems are large, complex programs which degrade total system performance, especially when they are run in a multi-user environment. UNIX provides hundreds of programs that can be piped together to easily perform almost any function imaginable. Nothing comes close to providing the functions that come standard with UNIX. Programs and philosophies carried over from other systems put walls between the user and UNIX, and the power of UNIX is thrown away. The shell, extended with a few relational operators, is the fourth generation language most appropriate to the UNIX environment. 1. Fourth Generation Systems In recent years, a variety of developments in programming language design have emerged. Object-oriented languages are becoming common, and languages explicitly supporting multiple tasks and inter-task communication are also gaining popularity. "