Jeff Grigg wrote:
> In my (not so humble) opinion...
>
> Relational Databases have the better ad-hoc query (and tool support)
> story.
>   
this was only a question of investment and maturity. RDB grew up before 
objects did and as I mentioned, had enough of a head start that they 
were able to solve these questions earlier on. OODBMS grew up in a 
crowed space using a technology that was not well known or well 
understood at that time. Today given equal opportunities, things might 
be different. That said, we can't roll back the clock. However, RDB 
technology is facing some technical hurdles that will force it to either 
adapt or wither. Chan
> That's important to the CxOs who make these decisions.
>
> Object Databases give performance, development and maintainability
> benefits of an order of magnitude or more.
In my years of working with  OODBMS I've never seen this. OODBMS 
technology as it has been implemented faces the same technical 
challenges as RDB + a couple more. Getting good performance out of a 
database was always easier with RDB. The biggest advantage was in early 
on speed of development. OODBMS got you up and running with about 40% 
less effort.

Regards,
Kirk

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