[Taxacom] Wikispecies is not a database: part 3 (after thinking about it!)

[Tony.Rees at csiro.au]

Rod Page wrote...

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1. The notion of a database espoused by Tony and Mike (i.e.,  
relational databases with tables with columns and rows) is but one  
view of databases, and a view some might say is old fashioned (key- 
value databases are the new hotness, there is a generation of  
programmers emerging for whom relational databases seem as relevant as  
FORTRAN).

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Maybe ... but tell me this: is there a single major database-driven biodiversity informatics provider that is NOT using a "conventional" relational database? My suspicion is that you are talking [b]leading edge here (if not vapourware) in the present context...

Just my 2 cents...

Tony