Re: object databases

Sasa wrote:
I posted this to comp.databases, but then it came to me that you guys
might provide some suggestions, sorry if this is an OT:

So after years of using strictly relational databases, I've begun to
consider an alternative. Object databases seem compelling, especially
since the data in the project I'm mostly involved in is highly
hierarchical. So the questions:
1) When would you recommend ODBMS, and when RDBMS?
2) Which ODBMS would you recommend?
3) The application I work on is single user desktop application. The
data resides on the user's computer. Is there any ODBMS suitable for
this (something like equivalent to MSDE, Access, etc.). Is there any
"lightweight" object database suitable for this, or would you recommend
something else instead?

Are you aware that object databases failed miserably to gain any
acceptance? Hmm, what the conclusion of this trivial fact might be? Use
relational database _always_?

There are numerous ignoramuses around (some with pretty loud names) who
would fight this obvious truth, but the fact of the matter is that you
as a computer developer professional just can't skip fundamentals of
data management class. And if you learn data fundamentals, then you
know why the concept of object database is a misnomer.

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