And PICK is still kind of around! Today the “multi value” database torch is in the hands of Rocket Software, which licenses it as “UniData” and “UniVerse”. Most of the logic for the higher ed ERP software Colleague relies on the BASIC flavor “UniBasic”, which is heavily tied to the MV database, for application logic.
IBM i (nee AS/400) also uses a database for its lower layers, and even though it isn't that common, database systems like MS SQL Server and Oracle can also be fully used to write applications with Web UIs, e.g. APEX, or mapping Web API endpoints to stored procedures.
They can also make use of raw partitions, thus having a server that is all about the RDMS and nothing else.
I knew this would be PICK.
My uncle, a very tech-savvy accountant type, used it a lot back in the day and always had nice things to say about it.
And PICK is still kind of around! Today the “multi value” database torch is in the hands of Rocket Software, which licenses it as “UniData” and “UniVerse”. Most of the logic for the higher ed ERP software Colleague relies on the BASIC flavor “UniBasic”, which is heavily tied to the MV database, for application logic.
IBM i (nee AS/400) also uses a database for its lower layers, and even though it isn't that common, database systems like MS SQL Server and Oracle can also be fully used to write applications with Web UIs, e.g. APEX, or mapping Web API endpoints to stored procedures.
They can also make use of raw partitions, thus having a server that is all about the RDMS and nothing else.
I would have thought it would be about OS/400.
Created by Dick Pick, no less.
I thought it was a bad joke, but no. Wikipedia says: "Pick was originally implemented [...] in 1965 by Don Nelson and Dick Pick at TRW".
I usually don't watch videos, but this one captured my attention.
I think something like this built around something like Datomic as an immutable database would be awesome.