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@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 - 01:17:16 CDT