10 Feb
2005
10 Feb
'05
3:38 p.m.
"Vinzenz Feenstra" <evilissimo@web.de> wrote
What exactly ist the motivation and the goal of rel/rtl ?
To implement an STL-compatible "relational table" container, that is type-safe and allows fields of any built-in or user-defined type. Naturally, once there is a container, operations are required. Hence, the relational algebra. We think such library could become a good alternative to, for example, MS Access, for light-weight applications. Also, the possibility to perform relational operations on objects might bring new and unexpected possibilities. As always with relational databases, the library is particulary convenient and efficient when multiple views of the same data are required and need to be kept in-sync. HTH, Arkadiy