On Tue, 13 Apr 2004, Marc Dumontier wrote: > Dan Bolser wrote: > > > >OK, final question, how will you do complex queries across the data? > > > > We use Lucene (http://jakarta.apache.org/lucene) to make a > field-specific text index. This software package provides us with a > query language which is very robust; all we have to do is tell it how to > index our data....the rest is done for us. > I was thinking more along the lines of data integration. I know you have ASN.1 underneath the data and ASN.1 <-> XML mapping is transparent, but suppose some new data comes along and you want to query across this too. I guess this is a problem for any system. Is there nothing you can't do with Lucene that you can do with SQL? - How about aggrigate functions? Cheers, Dan. > > Marc Dumontier > > >>Marc Dumontier > >> > >> > >> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>>>we should be releasing a beta of this software in a short while...please > >>>>visit http://www.bind.ca periodically for more information. > >>>> > >>>>Marc Dumontier > >>>>BIND Software Developer > >>>>Blueprint Initiative > >>>>Mt. Sinai Hospital > >>>>Toronto,ON > >>>> > >>>>Dan Bolser wrote: > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>>>On Tue, 16 Mar 2004, Michel Dumontier wrote: > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>>Same goes for BIND, they plan to use RDB, but not in a conventional way > >>>>>>>(so far as I understand). > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>> > >>>>>>BIND (http://bind.ca) stores bind-objects based on ASN.1 specification > >>>>>>(ftp://ftp.blueprint.org/pub/BIND/spec/, also available as XML DTD and > >>>>>>Schema), as ASN.1/XML in BLOB fields in the database table. BIND makes use > >>>>>>of field-specific indexing to be able to search for any particular object or > >>>>>>set of objects that match the search criteria. The relational aspect is > >>>>>>really more for curatorial work and tracking, afaik... > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>So it wont be like an XML query system? Sorry if I misunderstand, but it > >>>>>sounds like you just do plain text index on an XML blob, but is is more > >>>>>than that? > >>>>> > >>>>>Generally, can anyone tell me what is the point of XML schema when > >>>>>relational schema have existed for years with well understood maths, query > >>>>>language and theories of relational design? I understand XML as a > >>>>>transport medium, but why make it the basis for your object model over the > >>>>>RDB relational schema? Perhaps object orented datamodeling can do things > >>>>>relational modeling can't, but at what cost? I hate sounding old, but what > >>>>>was wrong with the RDB that we have to invent X-path and the like? > >>>>> > >>>>>Anyone on the list remember when relational databases were 'the new > >>>>>thing'? > >>>>> > >>>>>Dan. > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>>>Michel Dumontier > >>>>>>PhD Candidate > >>>>>>Samuel Lunenfeld Research Institute, Mt. Sinai Hospital > >>>>>>Department of Biochemistry, University of Toronto > >>>>>>Toronto, ON M5G1X5 > >>>>>>micheld at mshri.on.ca > >>>>>>http://blueprint.org > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>>>Biodevelopers mailing list > >>>>>>Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > >>>>>>https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>> > >>>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>>Biodevelopers mailing list > >>>>>Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > >>>>>https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>> > >>>>_______________________________________________ > >>>>Biodevelopers mailing list > >>>>Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > >>>>https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>> > >>>_______________________________________________ > >>>Biodevelopers mailing list > >>>Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > >>>https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>> > >>_______________________________________________ > >>Biodevelopers mailing list > >>Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > >>https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > >> > >> > >> > > > >_______________________________________________ > >Biodevelopers mailing list > >Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > >https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Biodevelopers mailing list > Biodevelopers at bioinformatics.org > https://bioinformatics.org/mailman/listinfo/biodevelopers >