Re: relational vs. oo dbms performance

>if both databases are held completely in the main memory,
>I'd favour the object oriented database, since the latter
>is easier to program. But normally, databases dont't fit
>into the core.

There exists a database server (times10) that, utilising different technology than btree - which is optimised for disk accesses, tries to maximise database data held in memory (Using pointer type items I believe).

I personally believe that this relates more to a matter of theory and correctness (I fall in the relational camp).

Read Chris Date's "The third manifesto" for a complete (heavy) discussion of what is so bad with the OODB approach.

Andrew Wilson Received on Mon May 08 2000 - 00:00:00 CEST