Emerging Dynabase Tools.

This article looks at some emerging parts of an interim dynabase tools for filing text and recording document structure and appearance, database software, and some near-term research projects. The primary sources of filing text are the Internet and scanned documents. Indexing time, retrieval speed, and file size are obvious efficiency metrics for filing email and other text. Views menu has a file portability advantage because it combines the data and index in a single, compressed file. However, updates are slower, and the identity of individual messages is lost, they are seen as part of one large document. A dynabase has a very large database with many data types. It support fast, ad-hoc queries, but transaction rates are low, and batch input is often tolerable. Relational database companies are moving towards the dynabase. Oracle, Sybase and other database companies are extending their current relational products for new data types. However, other companies have object-oriented databases. INSET: Pointers..