[bcostlow]

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

You can read the Wikipedia page and look at some sample code and draw your own conclusions on whether that's better or worse.

[paol]

MUMPS has featured several times on The Daily WTF (here's one: http://thedailywtf.com/Articles/A_Case_of_the_MUMPS.aspx). That alone should tell you something...

[gaius]

This is funny, because MUMPS actually ticks the modern trendy boxes of "NoSQL" and "DSL".

[ak39]

Thanks for the link.

What a name for a product servicing the healthcare industry. :-(