Re: [ROOT] TTreeFarm ?

From: Rene Brun (Rene.Brun@cern.ch)
Date: Tue Oct 31 2000 - 10:54:16 MET


Hi Anton,

I had already several requests in this direction.
The new class could behave like TChain but on the columns instead of the rows,
allowing for corrrelations betweens columns of different Trees.
I do not think it is too complex to implement, but as usual it takes time.

Rene Brun


This will permit FOKIN@tsl.uu.se wrote:
> 
> Hi rooters,
> 
> assuming TTree is a table in the RDBMS terminology,
> are we planning to have a TTreeFarm, which can be considered
> as a full-scale relational data base? It would also be nice
> to mine such a farm using normal SQL (relational) queries
> including table selection, etc.
> 
> Rene, what do you think?
> 
> You may say that we can avoid it if we put all our data
> in one tree, but it is like putting all eggs in one
> basket. Also, it is not practically possible in some
> situations.
> 
> Regards,
> Anton



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