Re: S.O.D.A. database Query API - call for comments

[java groups gutted from the followup-to]
> After all, if we put all relational features into object database, wouldn't it
> just be a better database? No, not everything scales easily.

I think it should be possible to make an object oriented database by building "object-orientedness" at the top of an RDBMS. And I think it should be possible to make it just as good as building a truely object oriented database from scratch. But I'm not going to prove that - at least not right now ;-)

There are powers both within the relational model and the object model, and as far as I see, they don't contradict each other that much. One class (without inheritance) is a table, one object (without inheritance) is a row in the table. Inheritance is just a special case of a link between two objects - one object without inheritance, and another object just containing what's added in the child-class.

Methods should be stored in the database somehow, and should replace the old triggers and stored procedures.

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