Re: Object-relational impedence

On 2008-03-03, Robert Martin <unclebob_at_objectmentor.com> wrote:
>
> There is indeed more to it than that. OO and RDB are both strategies
> for partitioning data. However, the motivation behind the partitioning
> is completely different. OO partitions data based on the way a
> particular application will process that data. RDBs partition data
> based on how many different applications will need to access that data.
>

No, RDBs partition data so that it is sensibly and easily available to any possible application. So if you use OO you are saying "there will never be any other application that will need my data".

E Received on Tue Mar 04 2008 - 00:03:41 CET