Re: Object oriented database

From: David BL <davidbl_at_iinet.net.au>
Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 17:18:37 -0800 (PST)
Message-ID: <113c7c50-6874-4339-82d4-1bd63b9bd6fc_at_f40g2000pri.googlegroups.com>


On Nov 4, 12:21 am, "Walter Mitty" <wami..._at_verizon.net> wrote:

> Instead of describing a database as a repository of persistent objects, we
> could describe a database as a repository of persistent messages. These
> messages are addressed "to whom it may concern", and that raises some
> issues, but they are fairly mundane issues.

That doesn't make sense to me. Have I got this right - the database records the messages but not the objects? Where are the objects? How do you account for the causal ordering of the messages? Received on Tue Nov 04 2008 - 02:18:37 CET

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