Re: How are OO databases doing

From: Bob Badour <bbadour_at_pei.sympatico.ca>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 15:09:03 GMT
Message-ID: <juHIf.30321$VV4.312654@ursa-nb00s0.nbnet.nb.ca>

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.
>
> Daniel

Hi Daniel,

Actually, XML is the hierarchic data model which makes it clumsier, less efficient and more difficult to work with than even the network model.

I appreciate the effort and the sentiment, though. Received on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 09:09:03 CST