Re: OODB

kaz_nakao_at_yahoo.com (Kazuhiro Nakao) wrote in message news:<b74bf5fe.0212101715.3114ff07_at_posting.google.com>...
> "neil" <neil_at_efc.be> wrote in message news:<vbpE9.18957$Ti2.3362@afrodite.telenet-ops.be>...
> > Lots exist and are absolutely wonderful things to study. You should avoid
> > them in the real world, however, if the following things are important to
> > you:
> >
> > 1 data integrity
> > 2 ad-hoc querying with SQL
> > 3 data-extraction using third party reporting tools that rely heavily on
> > 2 above (E.g. MS-Word)
> > 4 data is manipulated using multiple applications
>
> Matisse (http://www.matisse.com/) is one of the OODBs that
> support the above four things:
>
> 1. By introducing "inverse relationship", which is maintained
> by the DBMS, referential integrity is met.
> 2. Matisse provides SQL, which is executed in the server
> for high performance.
> 3. ODBC is provided
> 4. To make the server scalable, Matisse is using object-level
> locking, intrinsic versioning, multi-threading, etc...
> Since the data model in Matisse is neutral from any programming
> language, it's no problem to manipulate data using multiple
> applications even written in different languages.

Thanks. I will read the overview on the website - I am looking forward to grocking the data model. Received on Wed Dec 11 2002 - 10:19:30 CET