Incidentally, Bedrock is built on a blockchain as well -- though I agree with the sentiment that blockchain isn't actually new at all, and not that big of a deal. More information is here: http://bedrockdb.com/blockchain.html Hope you enjoy it!
-david On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 3:06 PM R Smith <ryansmit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > WARNING: the following sentence will be claimed to be controversial: > > > > No database based on SQL is truly relational. > > LOL - who would claim that to be controversial? > > It doesn't spur controversy... > > It's worthy of a shrug at best, perhaps a "So what?". > > > It sounds like a deepity - much like any of these: > - Nothing is ever really True... > - Is reality even really real? > - No ice-cream machine ever makes TRUE ice-cream. > > An SQL database is deemed "Relational" when it can communicate mildly > relational data using mildly relational (but mathematically sound) > methods. It doesn't need to be (nor claim to be) the Almighty keeper of > all relationality, nor even simply conform to various specific > interpretations of the word "Relation". > > In case the point still eludes: We call an SSL hand-shake such because > it behaves by mutual agreement - much like a human hand-shake - but just > because we call it so, doesn't bestow upon it a necessity to behave in > every way like a literal hand-shake, lest some pipe-smoking mountain > wisdom gazes far in the distance while stroking grey beard slowly and > declaring: "no SSL hand-shake is truly hand-shaky". > > > > > PS: While I feel some ambivalence towards the subject, I was nodding in > agreement with most of your post, till that line appeared. :) > > PPS: Apologies for inventing some words there.... > > PPPS: Thumbs up for the Bedrock suggestion from another post - that > system really rocks. > > > > _______________________________________________ > sqlite-users mailing list > sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org > http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users > _______________________________________________ sqlite-users mailing list sqlite-users@mailinglists.sqlite.org http://mailinglists.sqlite.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/sqlite-users
