From: Andrew McClure Subject: Re: Relationals vs. Objects Databases I Date: 1998/02/02 Message-ID: <6b43mv$kg0$1@wnnews1.netlink.net.nz>#1/1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <01bd230c$6c367590$ec0bbac3@m3bj1> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Organization: NetLink Wellington, New Zealand. Newsgroups: cern.oracle,comp.databases.object,comp.databases.objects,comp.databases.theory > >As I suggested before, I think it comes down to the type of system > >you're developing. I'm working on the population of a sizable data > >warehouse at the moment. We use COBOL to embed our SQL. That's not a > >big deal. There would be little benefit in moving to, say, C++ to embed > >SQL in - the structure of the programs is so simple that I find it hard > >to see how OO programming techniques could add value. I have been following this thread with some interest, and being relatively new to Object Databases, I won't fly into the current debate, however - I have one simple question. If one was to take a variety of running RDBMS applications, and port them to an ODBMS on similar hardware - Is there a rule of thumb that would predicate the performance difference, would it favour ODBMS, and if so, by how much. Further to this, if one did the same for RDBMS systems enhanced with, and using Object extensions, would these results differ dramatically? Thanks in advance Andrew ____________________________________ Andrew McClure Software Engineer - Wellington NZ Phone +64 479 2002 _____________________________________