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

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