Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

akmal _at_ city wrote:
>
> On Mon, 23 Jul 2001, Jim Melton wrote:
>
> Jim,
>
> [snip]
>
> > > > False 3: Object databases do not have performance advantages.
> > >
> > > Again, you have not explained why my statement is false. I have
> > > repeatedly explained why it is true:
> > >
> > > The relational model determines only how the DBMS represents data to
> > > the user and not how the DBMS stores the data. Since the DBMS can
> > > store the data identically to a non-relation ODBMS, it can achieve
> > > equivalent performance.
> >
> > Your statement is false because there is no commercially available database
> > today that can achieve the real-world performance of (most, many, all?)
> > object databases.
 

> :-o
>
> For what kind of applications? (most, many, all?)
>
> <akmal/>

I must say that was quite an overreaching statement. It apparently includes operations where object databases clearly perform poorly --- like ad-hoc queries.

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