Re: [xml-dev] What is the “standard form” of dat a?

On Thu, Sep 1, 2022 at 10:21 PM Liam R. E. Quin <[email protected]>
wrote:


> You could equally well say that [relational] database designers failed
> to learn from Unix.  It might simply be fairer to say the two groups
> worked in different domains, much as, years later, data-oriented and
> document-first XML people didn't always see eye to eye.
>

The RDB database by Walter V. Hobbs of RAND successfully combined the two
models: each relation is stored in a flat tab-separated values file and
processed by a series of relational operators.  A direct descendant of RDB
is Carlo Strozzi's NoSQL <
http://www.strozzi.it/cgi-bin/CSA/tw7/I/en_US/nosql/Home%20Page>.

NoSQL's operators, mostly written in awk, can be pipelined together with
sh.  The first line of each table contains the column names, each preceded
by ^A so that they always sort to the top.  (Strozzi says that what is
called NoSQL nowadays should really be called NoREL.)  In principle one
could write an implementation of SQL or any other query language on top of
NoSQL; Strozzi provides a query language he calls NoSQL Brokering Language,
which is a bit more like QUEL than SQL.