Hi!

> One possibility is to expand the section on
>
>   http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Database#Post-relational_database_models
>
> which already says:
>
>   Products offering a more general data model than the relational
>   model are sometimes classified as post-relational. The data model
>   in such products incorporates relations but is not constrained by
>   the Information Principle[clarification needed], which requires
>   that all information is represented by data values in relations.
>   [original research?]
>   

Ahrg, Codd/Date terminology ;-)

My "translation":
There are table based DBMSs that don't adhere fully to the relational model.

>   Some of these extensions to the relational model actually
>   integrate concepts from technologies that pre-date the relational
>   model.  For example, they allow representation of a directed graph
>   with trees on the nodes.
>   

Not even sure what this paragraph is about ...


/anders

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