I will not write much on what went on at this BoF, but a few
words are appropriate I guess.
- We were some 10 to 15 people in the room at the end.
- I started the thing by talking about the ancient history of databases, and went on to talk a bit on the reasons of the Relational databases appeared on the scene.
- We talked more on these reasons. The old Network and Hierarchical were largely tape oriented, even when data was on disk.
- My theory on search being a very major factor for adopting the relational database technology in the 1970s and on seemed to be accepted.
- As I went on to discuss search in an RDBMS being contextual, and the need for non-contextual search caused quite a few debates.
- That non-contextual search will be a factor in moving to NoSQL, as is a theory of mine, was not accepted by anyone else but myself :-)
- Contextual and non-contextual serach …