Cool new Free software [LWN.net]

Cool new Free software

Posted Dec 20, 2012 22:26 UTC (Thu) by Wol (guest, #4433)
In reply to: Cool new Free software by Wol
Parent article: Status.net service to phase out, replaced by pump.io

To make the problem more explicit, how do you store a list in an rdbms without mixing data and metadata? IT CAN'T BE DONE, because you can't store a list in a set.

So as soon as your data contains lists, an rdbms is inefficient. Much data consists of lists, does it not?

Cheers,
Wol

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