And this product is called NOMAD from Select Business Solutions.  It has only 
been available since 1976 or thereabouts.
 
And you can even MIX hierarchical and RDBMS if you want.
 
Geez.  Another wheel reinvented.
 
Lloyd


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> From: David Crayford <dcrayf...@gmail.com>
>To: IBM-MAIN@LISTSERV.UA.EDU 
>Sent: Thursday, October 17, 2013 1:10 AM
>Subject: Google F1 was: Re: MongoDB
>  
>
>The brainiacs over at google have invented a novel hybrid data base for their 
>Ads business http://research.google.com/pubs/pub38125.html. It supports 
>hierarchical schemas.
>
>Quote "With F1, we have built a novel hybrid system that combines the 
>scalability, fault tolerance, transparent sharding, and cost benefits so far 
>available only in “NoSQL” systems with the usability, familiarity, and 
>transactional guarantees expected from an RDBMS."
>
>
>
>On 16/10/2013 12:27 PM, Ze'ev Atlas wrote:
>> Dave Caryford said: It is not, however, a drop in replacement for 
>> traditional transactional
>> data bases.
>> 
>> You are correct, it IS not and SHOULD never be used as a transnational 
>> database.  It is however, a great (read better, more natural, more scalable, 
>> etc.) replacement to warehoses with star schemas and the like.
>> 
>> Conceptually, navigating MongoDB is similar to navigating IMS and IDMS and 
>> is totally different then using relational sets (using SQL)
>> 
>> ZA
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