Re: Flamewar object databases vs. relational databases
From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_golden.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 02:17:16 -0400
Message-ID: <JLkS6.807$EQ4.198413419_at_radon.golden.net>
Date: Sun, 3 Jun 2001 02:17:16 -0400
Message-ID: <JLkS6.807$EQ4.198413419_at_radon.golden.net>
>Bah. That's one of the smallest possible queries. You also don't need to
>do it at all if you use _seq.currval on the subsequent rows.
>Not having subselects - that's where major lossage on the wire occurs.
It's also totally unnecessary unless you are using system-generated surrogate keys.
>Perhaps
>we should call OODBSes Nested-Structure databases?
Why? "Nested-Structure Databases" equates to "Hierarchic Model Databases", which is not quite accurate for most OODBMSs. Most are Network Model Databases.
Regards,
Bob
Received on Sun Jun 03 2001 - 08:17:16 CEST