Linked by Mo Mckinlay on Fri 31st Oct 2003 17:35 UTC
There's been much discussion over the past few months about the marriage of databases and filesystems - with Microsoft's Longhorn reportedly sporting the
Yukon integrated SQL Server, and GNOME Storage in heaty debate, if not development, there's been lots to talk about.
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It's not so much about searching for lost files. Its about organisation. With a purely hierachical filesystem you can only arange things in one way.
do you organise things by
artistalbumtrackfilename
genrebitrateartistfilename
filetypeprojectduedatefilename
contactprojectfilename etc.
What if you want to see all the 4th tracks in one folder?
With the relational database model you can filter by any criteria and view it all as though it was all in one folder.
At the moment you can do this inside apps like iTunes, iPhota, Outlook etc. but this extends the concept to all your documents.
You can relate each file to each other file. See all the files related to a contact, a project, a group, etc.
This isn't to replace the whole file system, its just an indexing layer for your personal files, not the system files or programs.
I can't wait to try it out.