Quote: use attributes to express relationships; allows navigational access instead of query access with intermediate objects

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Express most relationships as properties [, or attributes] of objects. … The use of attributes makes it easier for … to explicitly introduce intermediate objects: to find the … that Published_by (b,x) and Has_address (x,y).   Google-1   Google-2

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