To: Bob Trocchi who wrote (2665 ) 1/5/1999 12:23:00 AM From: hasbeen101 Read Replies (1) | Respond to
From the Yahoo thread, a provocative quote from an interview with an ex-IBM guy called Roger Sessions, who wrote a book about how object storage is NOT best handled by ODBMS:As far as the database impedance mismatch, I think what you're talking about there is how long is it going to take you to get your object data into a state where you can put it into a relational database. Now, part of the implication of that might be wouldn't it be better just to store the object in an object-oriented database. If you read much of my writings, you know what I think of object-oriented databases. They are basically a fraud they have no purpose in the real world. If you go out on Wall Street and talk to people there, you won't meet a single person that could care less about storing their data in an object-oriented database. They store money, they store transactions, they have high throughput, that stuff goes into traditional database. It does not go into object-oriented databases. They've got terabytes of data out there they are not going to translate that stuff to an OODB. In fact, another criticism I'd make of CORBA is the fact that CORBA is very heavily influenced by the object-oriented database vendors. They have a huge role to play in the OMG. One of the things I liked about Microsoft is if you go through the entire Microsoft literature, you will never come across a single sentence where databases and objects are mentioned in the same sentence. In my mind, that is very good news. It means that they have not gotten sidetracked into what is fundamentally a flawed way of thinking about storing data. clbooks.com
