fishfry wrote:
> In article <IhjBd.5746$6i.1873_at_bignews6.bellsouth.net>,
> "Tom Dyess" <tdyess_at_dysr.com> wrote:
>
>
>>Yes, I would agree with the relational database. ORDB are mainly hype and
>>usually promoted by coders that have never had to write a report or mine
>>data effectively.
>>
>
>
> Is this really true? I'm an experienced database programmer learning the
> Java/OO way of doing things and I'm puzzled that people use Hibernate
> and similar tools to define objects, with the database serving as just a
> passive serialization mechanism with no thought to database theory. How
> can this possibly work in real life? Also I've been told that stored
> procedures are not supported by Hibernate, is that true? How can it be
> that 20 years of relational theory seems to be getting thrown out
> overnight? Or am I just misinformed?
It is true. Most of the Java being written against relational databases
doesn't perform and doesn't scale well. The saving grace for all of
those Java geniuses is that they can blame it on the web and 99% of IT
management is too clueless to know better.
--
Daniel A. Morgan
University of Washington
damorgan_at_x.washington.edu
(replace 'x' with 'u' to respond)
Received on Sun Jan 02 2005 - 10:35:06 CST
