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Database engineer K.S. Bhaskar has written about how YottaDB relates to M, also known as MUMPS. MUMPS, a fast, cross-platform nosql database standard (ISO/IEC 11756:1999), can even be found powering health care and financial systems.
In computing, the term legacy system has come to mean an application or a technology originally crafted decades ago, one important to the success of an enterprise, and which at least some people consider obsolete.
But age alone does not make something obsolete – we still read and appreciate Shakespeare a half-millenium after his death, and paper clips from over 100 years ago are still familiar to us today, We must recognize that software is also part of our technical and cultural heritage (see Software Heritage).
As in much else in our daily lives, legacy and heritage are intertwined.
(Score: 4, Informative) by Dr Spin on Sunday September 09 2018, @06:34PM (2 children)
Its "NoSQL" in the sense that it does not have SQL in it. It also has no Spam, sausages or eggs, so I would advise against it
as a breakfast - it may be suitable for a dogs dinner.
As for it being used for Medical things, well, yeah, it was invented as a hospital system in 1966 or thereabouts,
and may well have been quite advanced for 1966 (or not). Most of what we know about designing and
implementing computer languages was not known then, and none of what we do know came from MUMPS.
Warning: Opening your mouth may invalidate your brain!
(Score: 2) by turgid on Sunday September 09 2018, @07:11PM (1 child)
It's got a good acronym though, MUMPS, get it? It's a medical thing. MUMPS, it's a disease. See? Very witty I thought.
I refuse to engage in a battle of wits with an unarmed opponent [wikipedia.org].
(Score: 3, Funny) by Osamabobama on Monday September 10 2018, @04:47PM
It sounds bad, from other comments. Is it caused by a virus?
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