Jack Park forwarded this to my attention.
I am puzzling over:
At its core, the Globals database is powered by an extremely efficient multidimensional data engine. The exposed interface support access to the multidimensional structures – providing the highest performance and greatest range of storage possibilities. A multitude of applications can be implemented entirely using this data engine directly.
There is no data dictionary, and thus no data definitions, for the multidimensional data engine.
I “get” the part about extremely efficient multidimensional data engine (they say it often enough) but am curious why there is no data dictionary? Or at least why is that a claim to put up front?
Granting that I don’t consider data dictionaries to be self-describing but then neither are multidimensional arrays. Necessarily.
This database apparently lies at the core of a commercial application or line of commercial applications by Intersystems Corporation.