Re: Unknown SQL

>> I go further. It guarantees that OODBMS will never even begin to approach
>> the quality, functionality and performance of a relational database.
>
>This statement obviously is wrong.
>- Quality is only a function of time put into development.

Wrong. Quality is a function of the principles guiding development. An unprincipled approach will never catch up to a principled one.

>- Functionality is the same.

Wrong. One has a very simple interface with closure. The other has a very complex interface without closure. Functionality will never be the same.

>- Performance of object databases is clearly by far superior to relational
>databases for certain tasks.

Wrong. Performance is a function of the physical structures used to store data. The relational data model makes no restrictions on these physical structures. As such, it can certainly achieve the same performance as any other data model. Received on Sun Jul 22 2001 - 01:28:09 CEST