On 2014-07-10, at 5:22 PM, Blake McBride <[email protected]> wrote: > What I've been trying to convey (and clearly have failed on every attempt so > far) is that an APL component file system must be file-centric. Every APL > component file system that I've worked with or have read about has created a > file to contain its APL data components. > > Conceptually, yes. Actually, what goes on under the hood is implementation > specific. In our present case, each component file would equate to an SQL > table - not an SQL database. This is very important. So, if your > applications uses 15 component files, that would be represented as 15 SQL > tables in one SQL database. In my experience with the IPSA/STSC file system a component file could store different data types in each component. In my experience with various SQLs an SQL table only stores records whose fields are consistent for each record. Therefore I do not agree that component file maps to an SQL table.
Peter
