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?

Thanks,
Sasa

All the projects I've seen that used OODBMS suffered badly. They solved
their problems by switching to Oracle.

Not sure if that's worth anything to you but I wouldn't rush into it
and I certainly wouldn't believe what the "glossy brochures" say.

Cheers.

.

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