>There was a comment thread around here a week or two ago where someone pointed out it's kind of insane SQL has stuck around so long, and no one could point to any worthy potential replacements
SQL is based on relational algebra -- so it's the model with the best theoritical justification out there, even if the syntax could be improved.
It's the other ad-hoc solutions that is crazy that they keep getting suggested. SQL/RDBMS were invented because we had those (key stores etc, tree dbs) and they were crap.
SQL is based on relational algebra -- so it's the model with the best theoritical justification out there, even if the syntax could be improved.
It's the other ad-hoc solutions that is crazy that they keep getting suggested. SQL/RDBMS were invented because we had those (key stores etc, tree dbs) and they were crap.