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Re: Re: XML and the Relational Model

• To: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Subject: Re: Re: XML and the Relational Model
• From: Frank <frank@t...>
• Date: 26 Aug 2003 13:59:48 -0400
• Cc: xml-dev@l..., frank@b...
• In-reply-to: <20030826173738.87116.qmail@w...>
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On Tue, 2003-08-26 at 13:37, Mike Champion wrote:
> --- Frank <frank@b...> wrote:
> > On Mon, 2003-08-25 at 14:18, lbradshaw@d...
> > 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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