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"...very simple database systems such as MUMPS". I'm not sure MUMPS is a good example of a simple system.
by tectec 11y ago
"...very simple database systems such as MUMPS".
I'm not sure MUMPS is a good example of a simple system.
- brudgers 11y agoThe first customer of IBM Research's System R relational database was Pratt and Whitney in 1977. [1] IBM didn't release a commercial relational database until 1981. [2] The article is from 1978. Anyway MUMPS is probably simpler since than an SQL database since its database is a key value store. The big problem is that it made it easy to write unreadable code and people wrote enough of it to give it a bad reputation. [1]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_R https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_System_R [2]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_DB2
- th0waway 11y agokey value store, easy to write unreadable code... I wonder if a decade from now this will be said about current key value stores?