Integrated Data Sources
- To: mathgroup at smc.vnet.net
- Subject: [mg80062] Integrated Data Sources
- From: rxm at inbox.com
- Date: Sat, 11 Aug 2007 02:20:00 -0400 (EDT)
I'm confused about the Integrated Data Sources in Mathematica 6. Theo Gray, on the Wolfram Blog makes the claim that It's really more productive to forget about the database aspect of things and just think of data functions like any other Mathematica functions that return answers < ...stuff deleted...> don't worry about calling the data functions many times: they cache cleverly and are very fast after the initial download or update. Are those statements related to DatabaseLink? What controls the cache? Does one need to write custom Java or C code to implement something like ChemicalData[]? What are Paclets and how are they related to this topic? Illumination appreciated. ( Link to Theo Grays article: http://blog.wolfram.com/2007/05/computable_data_functions.html )