Re: How are OO databases doing

From: Christopher Browne <cbbrowne_at_acm.org>
Date: Wed, 15 Feb 2006 12:39:22 -0500
Message-ID: <87hd70y111.fsf_at_wolfe.cbbrowne.com>


Quoth Daniel Dittmar <daniel.dittmar_at_sap.corp>:
> 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 seem to recall SAP-DB having some sort of "object interface" inside that you could see some hooks for, here and there.

I also recall that nobody got around to documenting how to use it. Features that are "so valuable" usually get documented ;-).

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