On 3/2/06, Charles Finley <[log in to unmask]> wrote: > My understanding is that the Eloquence database engine is written in the > same style as a modern RDBMS. That is, the same code base could have been > used to implement an RDBMS. However, what the programmer sees is the API > (Intrinsics, System Calls) not the internals. RDBMS's are accessed with > some API that involves sending SQL statements to access data. Eloquence is > not built to use a SQL API. Eloquence is NOT an RDBMS. I have no understanding of Eloquence's capabilities or internals, but implying that SQL (although most contenders for the RDBMS title have implemented it) is the defining characteristic of a relational database management system is, well, wrong. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dataphor * To join/leave the list, search archives, change list settings, * * etc., please visit http://raven.utc.edu/archives/hp3000-l.html *