if you are interested.
Akmal B. Chaudhri conducted a study into
How different Database Vendors implemented
OODBMS
in the newletter 18 ( pp6-15) to the British Computer Society
OOPS Group in 1993.
I don't think things have changed much since then.
The article was called 'Object Database Management Systems'.
>From: Gene Chuang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>Reply-To: Gene Chuang <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>Subject: Re: Is it common sense
>Date: Sun, 29 Apr 2001 17:21:42 -0700
>
>I had extensive experience w/ Object Design's ObjectStore a year ago. As a
>OO developer, I felt OODBMS is wonder and natural to use. However, also as
>a hardcore performance and scalability engineer, I felt let down by what it
>delivered.
>
>As many have already said, inertia and politics play a big role in why
>OODBMS never really took off. Technically there's no excuse why we still
>have to mess around with archaic RDBMS, object-mapping, JDBC, etc, but the
>bottom line is companies like Oracle are 800 lb gorillas that just won't
>budge!
>
>Gene
>
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>To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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>Subject: Re: Is it common sense
>
>Has anyone really been able to scale an OODBMS?
>
>
> >From: Filip Hanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >Reply-To: Filip Hanik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >Subject: Re: Is it common sense
> >Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2001 14:30:06 -0700
> >
> >well, use of a relational database is ROI (return on investment)
> >there are so many tools and programs supporting it,
> >read this article
> >http://java.oreilly.com/news/ejbtips_0500.html
> >
> >Filip
> >
> >~
> >Namaste - I bow to the divine in you
> >~
> >Filip Hanik
> >Software Architect
> >[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> >www.filip.net
> >
> > > -----Original Message-----
> > > From: A mailing list for Enterprise JavaBeans development
> > > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Rohit Parik
> > > Sent: Friday, April 27, 2001 11:48 PM
> > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> > > Subject: Is it common sense
> > >
> > >
> > > To all you Gurus out there
> > >
> > > So many times we heard the benefits of Object Oriented paradigm and
>we
> >all
> > > love it and we just relish EJBs and the ease with which we can model
> > > enterprise applications because its god damn close to the real
>world.
> > >
> > > AND THEN WE BLOW it UP.... our DB remains a relational database....
>and
> >we
> > > loose all that we gain from object orientation.. especially the
>damned
> > > Object to Relational link...
> > > Dont you believe that there should be deep thought given about usage
>of
> > > ODBMSes as our DB so as to remove the redundancy we introduce
> > > with relation
> > > dbs.
> > >
> > > Also one question to you all is Sun promoting any ODBMS or
> > > assisting in its
> > > development coz Sun, I believe, should realize that EJB can be a
> > > out -n- out
> > > success only if this redundancy, this overhead of using relational
>DBs
> >is
> > > removed... I understand that ODBMS are still evolving but that's
>what I
> > > believe Sun should push more.. so they earn more money and we
>too.... :)
> > >
> > > Regards
> > > Rohit Parik
> > > Netweb Software, India
> > > Ph: +91-265-301424
> > > +91-265-314729
> > > Fax: +91-265-314756
> > > email : [EMAIL PROTECTED]
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