Greg Smith wrote:
the idea of one database approach always being right just isn't true anyway.
Or one software development approach or one application runtime approach or ... . One of the major contributions of the relational model compared to the myriad network model implementations prevalent at the time was that the relation model was a straightforward approach whose theory was easily grasped and applied. The model made *people* more productive; certainly, network implementations could run circles around the early relational implementations, so it didn't make database servers more productive.
Any alternative DBMS approach would have to provide a similar level of human productivity. Given relational's staying power over the intervening 25+ years (with many more people available to research alternatives and much more available computing power), that appears to be a significant challenge.
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