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Draper's Law*
* From Hal Draper's seminal but little-known 1961 paper on information science.
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Draper's Law
A database is a record storage system that provides a generalised mechanism for locating any given item among N items in less than O(N) time.
First Corollary
Any record storage system that does not provide such a mechanism, regardless of what other capabilities it might exhibit, is not a database.Second Corollary
Any record storage system that does not provide such a mechanism will eventually fail due to unforseen queries that require O(N) time.* From Hal Draper's seminal but little-known 1961 paper on information science.
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