Chapter 6

Structured Search on Database Landscape

Abstract

The positioning of structured search within the landscape of historical and contemporary database trends is discussed in this chapter. The topics considered are: key-objects and object-oriented programming paradigm, key-objects and object-oriented databases, KeySQL and NoSQL, query independence and data independence, and KeySQL and massively parallel processing (MPP) architectures. The reasons why the object- oriented databases were unsuccessful are analyzed. The difference between NoSQL and KeySQL is considered and the KeySQL concept is shown to complement NoSQL with full-blown structured querying capabilities. Also, the difference between object-oriented programming concepts and the key-object ...

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