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Object Database Vs Relational Database : Debate?
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Emcee:  ganesh babu Type:  Unmoderated
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We all know that software industry is going thro a paradigm shift(from
Procedural Programming to Object Oriented Programming). And this will have a direct implication in the Database industry. Today it is predominantly relational in nature. As objects become talk of everyday in Software industry and the same will become true for Database industry. Before you know RDBMS will become the thing of the past. But there is a huge investment in RDBMS today. So those who have made huge investment in RDBMS may want to have an Object interface for the existing RDBMS. So todays RDBMS vendors are busy working on providing an Object interface to the RDBMS. That itself is a proof for a vibrant Object Database industry.

The real debate is who is going to Win?

Today We have three major players in RDBMS:
Oracle, informix and Sybase.

And two major players seem to evolving in ODBMS:
Versant and Object Design.
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71 If you examine the benchmarks in detail, it appears that 5 of the top Oracle beMark Finger-4/1/1997
70 < Do they have any chance competing with ODI in the OODBMS world. I think noKeith Hankin-3/27/1997
69 Bob, Oracle is certainly a leader in the Relational Database arena. The real iErez-3/26/1997
68 Thankyou for your feedback. I may be out of date here with respect o the perfoRobert Graham-3/25/1997
67 Just a quick comment on your note which I pretty well agree with except for theKen G. Sun-3/25/1997
66 A good sale database system always needs "killer" applications associJun Wang-1/10/1997
65 ODI in Web Week might change your mind. Before you determine that Informix hasBonehead-1/10/1997
64 Informix clearly has the strategy to win this battle and the database wars in tTom Lindsay-1/10/1997
63 I want to add a quick note here. Oracle database software has never been knownRobert Graham-1/9/1997
62 Oracle 8 is object relational, which means although it may be optimized to handKen Wei-1/9/1997
61 ODBMS's are more appropriate for distributed computing applications. InterBonehead-12/13/1996
60 Hi Kalyan, Object-Oriented is the name of the (online) game: Game Design in MGUSTAVE JAEGER-12/12/1996
59 If the response to the Universal Server, particularly from the VARs, is anythiKalyan Kolachala-12/12/1996
58 No, I sure have liked the Rational chart though. I bought a few more shares ofBill Harmond-11/26/1996
57 What's your read on RATL and PASW? Do you hold positions in these 2? PhiliPhilip H. Lee-11/26/1996
56 How the Web is driving object databases into the limelight (Netscape World) neBill Harmond-11/22/1996
55 Gustave, Good stuff. We need more like this here in this thread.Thanks. We nganesh babu-11/19/1996
54 I'm always suspicious whenever people start throwing around "futurist&Greg Kemnitz-11/19/1996
53 DBMS and the web are too different for one to displace the other. Behind the wMark Finger-11/18/1996
52 Hi Ganesh, Here's more to your "paradigm shift": Monday NovembeGUSTAVE JAEGER-11/18/1996
51 to all: you all know that the internet as of now is at it's beginninchien wong-11/16/1996
50 Cairah, I do agree Oracle has a dominant position in RDBMS. But I believe thganesh babu-11/16/1996
49 Ganesh, Have you been keeping up with ORCL? It is expected to surge, I wasEverard Taylor-11/16/1996
48 Hi Mike, You ask me about Objectivity: it looks like they're losing groundGUSTAVE JAEGER-11/16/1996
47 Hi Mike, I don't think Poet will be gobbled up by another ODBMS vendor: whGUSTAVE JAEGER-11/14/1996
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