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Ah, so what we used to call a database in third normal form, before it was rediscovered and given a different name so it could generate revenue. Of course, the
by bregma 4y ago
Ah, so what we used to call a database in third normal form, before it was rediscovered and given a different name so it could generate revenue. Of course, the term database has also been redefined to refer to commercial RDBMS products, but it does make it hard to keep up with the underlying technology whenever a new set of salepeople come along looking to make commission.
- pizza234 4y agoSarcasm is not actually correct. An ECS is not an RDBMS, because in the latter is based on row-based storage, while the former is column-based. The storage part of ECSs could actually be considered a form of columnar db. For example, locking is at column level, so you can have as many mutable accesses to a single entity (like a row) as there are columns (in reality, it's more complicated, due to access via iterators, but that's the principle).