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Status of hierarchical models

IMS

  • Early hierarchical model, invented by IBM.
  • Started development in 1966.
  • Widely used through the 70s (at least).
  • Not so much now.

Those who forget history ...

Forty years later:

  • MongoDB, Dynamo, Cassandra, CouchDB, ...
  • "Documents" which are JSON/BSON objects, which are hierarchical.

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