2012/3/18 Pantelis Koukousoulas <pkt...@gmail.com> > On Sat, Mar 17, 2012 at 4:52 PM, Hazel Russman > <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> wrote: > > I have put a copy of this in the feedback folder on the ODF site. It > contains Mark's comments on content and a lot of small stylistic changes by > me. > > > > As a general comment, I don't agree with Dan's use of "DBMS" and > "RDBMS", as I think these terms should refer to software (such as Base), > not to data. My preferred terms are "database" and "relational database" > > >From a CS point of view at least, you are right. DBMS (DataBase > Management System) / RDBMS > (Relational DataBase Management System) are terms that refer to the > software that manages > databases, while "database" is meant to refer to the data that is being > managed. > > RDBMS would be your HSQLDB, MySQL, Sqlite or whatever. > > I don't think "Base" should be described as a RDBMS though, it is just > a frontend to several of > them. > > Can BASE create a cluster and delete it ? I was not aware of this ... this would be AWESOME !!
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