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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The Palm OS was designed, like OS 400, to contend primarily with fielded data. The Palm API provides access to databases rather than files (non-volatile storage cards are an exception) and maintains a management system (pointers, really) to write and retrieve records. Each record has an abritrary structure - it can vary from record to record. The records are a method for imposing some order on RAM. This is what Reiser FS 4 is about, as well. It works very well for most data applications (which are also 'databases' on a Palm).