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While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS. The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in
by bcostlow 14y ago
While I know the article was about the UK, in the USA a lot of clinical data is not stored in an RDBMS.
The software is written in MUMPS, which has a built in (sort of) document oriented data storage layer.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MUMPS
You can read the Wikipedia page and look at some sample code and draw your own conclusions on whether that's better or worse.
- ak39 14y agoThanks for the link. What a name for a product servicing the healthcare industry. :-(
- paol 14y agoMUMPS has featured several times on The Daily WTF (here's one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx). That alone should tell you something...
- gaius 14y agoThis is funny, because MUMPS actually ticks the modern trendy boxes of "NoSQL" and "DSL".