Random Database in Python
Ian Bicking
ianb at colorstudy.com
Wed Oct 23 18:01:57 EDT 2002
On Wed, 2002-10-23 at 02:40, Tim Churches wrote:
> David LeBlanc wrote:
> >
> > Is there any example of the type of database used by programs like Lotus
> > Agenda or InfoSelect in Python? Sometimes described as a "random"
> > database...
>
> Sort of like a "heterogenous stack", which is what Apple's much lamented
> HyperCard
> product was, I think. Also known as an "Entity-Attribute-Value" database
Hmm... at its core, is EAV equivalent to an RDF assertion? (The
database being content plus a set of such assertions) I'm not too
familiar with either EAV or RDF, but they seem outwardly similar, and of
course there's lots of RDF work going on (in Python and other
languages).
Ian
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