Path: utzoo!utgpu!watmath!att!dptg!rutgers!psuvax1!psuvm!uh2 From: UH2@PSUVM.BITNET (Lee Sailer) Newsgroups: comp.sys.next Subject: Re: NeXT Database Prowess Message-ID: <89227.110740UH2@PSUVM> Date: 15 Aug 89 15:07:40 GMT References: <19350@vax5.CIT.CORNELL.EDU> <2211@hub.UUCP> Organization: Penn State University - Center for Academic Computing Lines: 11 One other point about indexed files. Remeber that the index stuff takes roughly as much disk space as the original material, so that if you have 50 MB of Freud, then you'll need about 50 MB to strore the indexes, too. Also, perhaps we should call this software something else. In some quarters, "database" refers to the management of more structured material comprising "entities" which have "attributes" (like Employee == name, age, salary, ssn ). Since NeXT has (will have) such database capabilities, it is confusing to call the Webster's and Shakespeare capabilities "database", too. I suggest we call them "Information Retrieval" utilities.