Suggestion for a name? On Nov 4, 2010, at 5:18 PM, Arjen Lentz wrote:
> Hi Lee, all > > On 05/11/2010, at 6:27 AM, Lee Bieber wrote: >> You are now subscribed to the blueprint set-tuple - SET and Tuple type. >> https://blueprints.launchpad.net/drizzle/+spec/set-tuple > > > The use of the term 'tuple' here is very awkward, overloading/conflicting > with commonly known use of the term (roughly put, a row in an RDBMS). > > The new type (from discussion with Brian) appears to be somewhat like an > array, but more closely related to the HyperTable/BigTable concept of a > Column Family, allowing many-to-many relationships such as 0-N phone numbers > belonging to a contact to be denormalised into the contact table, saving 2 > joins and thus making life easier in a cloud/clustered environment. > > I think this is a rocking development, very useful - but please let's fix up > the naming before it sticks. > thanks > > Regards, > Arjen. > -- > Arjen Lentz, Exec.Director @ Open Query (http://openquery.com) > Remote expertise & maintenance for MySQL/MariaDB server environments. > > Follow us at http://openquery.com/blog/ & http://twitter.com/openquery > > > _______________________________________________ > Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > Post to : [email protected] > Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss > More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp _______________________________________________ Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss Post to : [email protected] Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~drizzle-discuss More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
