Re: Robot Databases

Skip Montanaro (skip@automatrix.com)
Tue, 20 Feb 1996 11:04:58 -0500


Alta Vista uses proprietary index technology. No d.b.

Ditto for Musi-Cal. No slow, hog-like relational database here. What's
more, like the movie database, it's written entirely in an interpreted
scripting lanugage (Python in our case, not Perl).

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