Re: Best Practise Question

"Alfredo Novoa" <alfredo_at_nospam_ncs.es> wrote in message news:3da5f882.1544150_at_newscache4.freenet.de...
> On Wed, 9 Oct 2002 12:28:49 +1000, "Thomas Lenzen" <tlenzen_at_yahoo.com>
> wrote:
>
> >being a little lost in a research thing I do for a University-Assignment
> >*ACK*
> >
> >What is best practise for using/choosing RDBMS/ODBMS/ORDBMS ?
> >and
> >How is it possible to back-up the selection ?
>
> RDBMS and ORDBMS are the same. See:
> http://www.dbmsmag.com/int9410.html
>
> ODBMS are a reincarnation of network DBMS's, they are a semi-dead
> technology. See:
>
> http://www.cee.hw.ac.uk/~trinder/AdvDbSystems/Whatever.pdf
>
>
> Alfredo

I was actually interviewed for that second article :-)

The original site is here:
http://www.leavcom.com/pdf/DBpdf.pdf
or
http://www.leavcom.com/db_08_00.htm

In the article, my comments sound +ve, but I gave Neal Leavitt both the pros and cons of OODBs.

I am trying to find up-to-date market share numbers for OODBs, but no luck so far. I have some old numbers from about 2 years ago which put the entire market at US$$100 million (Source: Gartner). One problem is that analysts use different ways to calculate the numbers. I think IDCs numbers tend to be higher than Gartners.

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