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> At the moment you more or less need to write a DBMS in your app code Since we're discussing misunderstandings in the community, it should be pointed out that
by eternalban 6y ago
> At the moment you more or less need to write a DBMS in your app code
Since we're discussing misunderstandings in the community, it should be pointed out that a Database Management System (DBMS) is not merely a database, to say nothing of a data store. Oracle, Postgres, et al are genuine "DBMS". ATM you are very likely putting together a data store in your app code.
- tomnipotent 6y agoYou're conflating DBMS with RDBMS. I interpreted the OP as DBMS=database, which absolutely includes application code that stores and retrieves data in proprietary formats. Even a linked list mmap'd to disk can be a database, just maybe not a very good one.
- eternalban 6y agoA RDBMS is simply a Relational Database Management System. A quick tour of CS history reveals ancient curiosities such as Hierarchical Database Management Systems. And there is more: https://www.studytonight.com/dbms/database-model.php https://www.studytonight.com/dbms/database-model.php
- tomnipotent 6y agoThere are many kinds of databases. Graph, key/value, relational, hierarchal etc. That doesn't change the fact that any app that writes code to store and retrieve data is creating their own database or using someone else's.
- eternalban 6y agoThere are many kinds of data models. A DBMS is a DBMS, and typically a specific DBMS supports a specific data model. A log structured file is at most a data store. To be fair this is a somewhat fuzzy categorization (DBMS, DB, Data Store) and it can cause confusion. An DBMS is a system, just like it says right on the acronym tin. A DBMS is a system that provides capabilities such DDL, DML, auxiliary processes, etc. to manage a database. There are various data models, e.g. a triple store, for databases, but the data model X is a orthogonal to XDBMS.
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