Re: How are OO databases doing

From: mAsterdam <mAsterdam_at_vrijdag.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:49:08 +0100
Message-ID: <43f33eef$0$11079$e4fe514c@news.xs4all.nl>

Daniel Dittmar wrote:
>
> Several object database are now being sold as XML databases. Or were
> last year, when all the hype was about XML.
>
> And to spare Bob Badour a post: XML "databases" are just network model
> databases in new clothes. The data model is clumsy, inefficient and
> difficult to work with.

I have no experience with XML "databases".

From what I read, e.g. at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath I see a strictly singular hierarchical nature - "Nodes never share children" (so NO heterarchies as in multiple inheritance object models). CODASYL databases (no quotes) at least handle many-to-many quite well. Received on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 08:49:08 CST