Rong Chen wrote: > Bert Verhees wrote: > >> Dear Mikael, since I initially started the discussion, I explain what >> my needs/opinions are. >> >> A good persistence-layer reflects the classes which want to be >> persistent. > > Do you have any specific need for queries? If you don't need to query > the internals of the objects (or tree of them), it will be quite > simple to just serialize the whole object.
This would be bad from point of view of control, MS-Word does this, and serializes all kinds of uninitialized buffers which contain random memory data. Also it is not possible to perform datamining techniques over the data. But serializing objects is a valid way of storing them, so it should be possible over the same interface as all other databases are connected. I would not recommend it. No way Bert
