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Flat files, ISAM, and IMS

Those were all good ideas at the time.

Infact IMS was such a good idea the hipsters just reinvented about 1% of its functionality and called it MongoDB!



I was explaining NoSQL to an older coworker of mine who bemusedly humored me for 20 minutes or so before explaining she'd started her career off with Pick in the 1970s...


Right. Much NoSQL is a re-invention of the CODASYL DBMS concept from 1969.[1] Everything is explicit links.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CODASYL



Yes


Funny cuz that's what Ive been saying about IDMS for years:

https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/IDMS




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