Re: Ordb & Oodb

"fanquyin" <member_at_dbforums.com> wrote in message news:2130185.1039121592_at_dbforums.com...
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> Hi,
> Can any one give me the reasons or examples scenario where an
> object-relational database would be preferable to an object_oriented
> database and vice versa.
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> thanks
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My colleague at IBM, Paul Brown, has written a book on Object-Relational Database Development that you may find useful. Paul contributes here from time-to-time and has also worked with customers that have used O-R and can better explain their reasons for doing so.

Here is Paul's book:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0130194603/

I have not come across many comparisons of OO and OR. There is a nice (old, but still useful) paper that compares OO and R:

http://members.lycos.co.uk/webdatabases/misc/RDBMS_vs_ODBMS.zip

Maybe it helps you.

Another colleague of mine, Jens Coldewey, has done a nice tutorial that compares some of the forces at work when considering OO, OR and R. From his web site:

http://www.coldewey.com/publikationen/ChoosingDatabaseTech.pdf (3.7 MB)

I have a few other links here that might help:

http://www.btinternet.com/~webdatabases/html/resources.html

Good luck.

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