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

On Tue, 24 Jul 2001, akmal_at_soi.city.ac.uk.nospam wrote:

> On 23 Jul 2001, Galen Boyer wrote:
>
> Hi Galen,
>
> [snip]
>
> I'll add a few comments if you don't mind.

[snip]

> OODBs have actually been around quite a long time.

[snip]

> During that time, I've watched interest grow and then wane as
> new things have come along and the vendors have tried to catch
> the next technology wave.
>
> There are a couple of tutorials that provide a good intro to
> the subject of OODBs. For example, Frank Manola's two part
> report:
>
> ftp://ftp.gte.com/pub/dom/reports/MANO94a.pt1.ps
> and
> ftp://ftp.gte.com/pub/dom/reports/MANO94a.pt2.ps
>
> Download just the first part if you don't have time to read it
> all.

Akmal. I have only been in this group a short time and I really like your posts.

I will read these, because I am highly interested in the OODB's because I have been workin within the OO framework for about 3 years (while DBs for 10 years) and everybody talks about OODB's but only in the "buzzword" type of way. This is the first group that has actually started to let me understand these tools.

> It can help in some cases, particularly if you are using an
> OOPL. However, there are also drawbacks and total cost of
> ownership/business issues in my observation. I've discussed
> some of the issues that I think have been big problems for
> OODBs in a number of presentations. The SJUG talk I gave just
> recently covers many of them. Slides are available here:
>
> http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/html.dir/publications.html
>
> There is also a paper by (the legendary duo of) Mike Carey and
> David DeWitt
>
> "Of Objects and Databases, A Decade of Turmoil"
> http://www.informatik.uni-trier.de/~ley/db/conf/vldb/CareyD96.html
>
> That is worth a read.

Thanks again.

--
Galen Boyer
It seems to me, I remember every single thing I know.