Re: Object Oriented Databases

[Matthew Hardin <matthew@hardin.net>]

Another consideration is portability from one odbms platform to another. 
They are rather proprietary in nature and not as easy to transport between 
as it would be for a rdbms (though that isn't exactly a walk in the park 
either).

Matthew

At 02:11 PM 7/30/2002 -0700, Ralph wrote:
>Not having dealt with one directly myself, I cannot say.  However, the
>major factor that I've read or heard comparing object-oriented database
>systems versus traditional relational database systems is that the
>object-oriented databases just don't scale well enough to make them a
>practical replacement for relational database systems yet.
>
>--- "Stieglitz Noel (fin2nxs)" <fin2nxs@ups.com> wrote:
> > Hi all,
> >
> > Does anyone have any experience with ODBMS?  I have always been
> > curious why
> > they have not caught on.  It seems to make a lot more sense than
> > dealing
> > w/impedance mismatch, JDBC, etc.  If you want to develop a new,
> > complex
> > system, ODBMS has a lot of good qualities.
> >
> > Any thoughts?
> >
> >
> > Noel
> >
>
>
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