Re: What makes an OODBMS different from an RDBMS?

From: Carl Rosenberger <carl_at_db4o.com>
Date: Wed, 28 Nov 2001 16:35:21 +0100
Message-ID: <9u305v$358$01$1@news.t-online.com>

Tim Mills wrote:
> I've been developing an ODMG/C++ OODB for about 6 years.

I found your web homepage.

> I tend to follow
> the advice in Grey & Reuter's Transaction Processing Concepts and
> Techniques. That, together with C. Mohan's work at IBM on the ARIES
> recovery scheme, and Leonidas Fegaras work on implementing OQL provide a
> fairly complete basis for implementing an OODB with standard ACID
> transactions and a decent query language.

I am completely undereducated for what I am doing but the naive "ad-hocery" approach, that some people tend to smile about, seems to work out quite nicely in practice.

Cheers,
Carl Received on Wed Nov 28 2001 - 09:35:21 CST