[Info-vax] VSI roadmap

[Arne Vajhøj]

On 8/22/2023 10:17 AM, Johnny Billquist wrote:
> On 2023-08-21 14:10, Simon Clubley wrote:
>> On 2023-08-18, Dave Froble <davef at tsoft-inc.com> wrote:
>>> Just not anywhere as nice with RMS and "external to the database" record
>>> definitions.
>>
>> RMS was clearly designed by people who thought punched cards were cool...
> 
> Yeah. Just like BDB. Or any other key-value datastore. Definitely smells 
> like puched cards...

The concept is sort of timeless.

ISAM/VSAM on IBM mainframe must be about as old as me.

Lots of OS got similar features. Including VMS RMS.
*nix got DBM in 1979 and BDB in 1994.

It is a standard or at least de facto standard feature
in Cobol.

In this century the concept has become known
as NoSQL key value store and several new has
been created like:
   LevelDB (Google) 2011
   LMDB 2011
   RocksDB (Facebook) 2012

Where the age of RMS indexed-sequential files
show is the 32 KB record size limit.

Arne