Re: How are OO databases doing

Daniel Dittmar wrote:
>
> Several object database are now being sold as XML databases. Or were
> last year, when all the hype was about XML.
>
> And to spare Bob Badour a post: XML "databases" are just network model
> databases in new clothes. The data model is clumsy, inefficient and
> difficult to work with.

I have no experience with XML "databases".

 From what I read, e.g. at http://www.w3.org/TR/xpath I see a strictly singular hierarchical nature - "Nodes never share children" (so NO heterarchies as in multiple inheritance object models). CODASYL databases (no quotes) at least handle many-to-many quite well. Received on Wed Feb 15 2006 - 15:49:08 CET