The reason is not that they're widely spread, have you tried to run a query against such tools? Have you ever tried to generatea report? Have you ever had to shard or get them to work on a master/slave setup?
OODMBS are still too naive for real use, at least when you need more than just "store" data. - Maurício Linhares http://alinhavado.wordpress.com/ (pt-br) | http://blog.codevader.com/ (en) On Wed, Jan 7, 2009 at 10:21 AM, MaD <[email protected]> wrote: > > that's an old discussion. ooDBMS vs rDBMS. main argument for rDBMS > (and therefore ORM) is, that these systems are widely spread (mySQL, > postreSQL, ...). another point IMHO is, that most people are just used > to rDBMS and want to keep on using them. maybe with rails3 you can > switch between systems more easily. > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Ruby on Rails: Talk" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/rubyonrails-talk?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---

