Neo wrote:
> > Okay, but where does relational allegedly trip up or get difficult?
>
> I would say mostly in the has hierarchy whose root is CourtHouse1. This
> is because the has hierarchy contains things of various types
> (buildings, floors, rooms and persons at various levels).
I would agree that your approach makes it easier to get a re****t of all
the varied stuff in or belonging to the courthouse. But in my
observation these are not the most frequent kind of queries. Usually
re****t requests are more narrow in scope. For example, "What are all
the fixed assets in courthouse X that have not expired?" from the
accounting department. They are not concerned with personell in there
also.
Your approach seems optimized for a newbie to gain *general*
familiarization of the area or a physical simulation, such as The Sims.
But it does not appear well optimized for business-oriented queries,
which are usually more focused in purpose. If this means that RM is
optimzed for the biz world but not other domains, perhaps you have a
point. But I have not really explored such outside of biz much, so
cannot really comment. (It does remind me of DOM though, which I am
not very fond of.)
>
> Dir
> |-item-
> |-Building
> | |-instance-
> | |-CourtHouse1
> | |-has-
> | |-Floor1+
> | |-Floor2+
> | |-Courtney+
> |
> |-Floor
> | |-instance-
> | |-Floor1
> | | |-has-
> | | |-Room1+
> | | |-Ashley+
> | |
> | |-Floor2
> | |-has-
> | |-Room1+
> | |-Room2+
> |
> |-Room
> | |-instance-
> | |-Room1 (of Floor1)
> | | |-has-
> | | |-Clark+
> | |
> | |-Room1 (of Floor2)
> | |
> | |-Room2 (of Floor2)
> | |-has-
> | |-Judy+
Judge Judy? Isn't that a TV show?
-T-
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