Re: relational vs object

From: Carl Rosenberger <carl_at_db4o.com>
Date: Thu, 14 Mar 2002 12:06:27 +0100
Message-ID: <a6q04q$psu$04$1@news.t-online.com>

"Neil Burnett" <neil_at_efc.be> wrote:
> So, OODBMS are great for the programmer.

It would be very nice if more programmers would realize this.

> I didn't read anything in
> there about data integrity or ad hoc querying

I was writing about the "cons" of object databases. Relational databases clearly are stronger in supporting integrity constraints and querying.

> - the two most important things for the end user.

I agree.

There are some object databases that do featutre integrity constraints. Some also support OQL or SQL also, although the supported subsets are not too extensive.

Kind regards,
Carl

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Carl Rosenberger
db4o - database for objects - http://www.db4o.com

Received on Thu Mar 14 2002 - 05:06:27 CST