Re: Modernization?

["Maurice O'Prey" <maurice.oprey@xxxxxxxxx>]

Thorbjørn

It is quite late here in the UK and my object orientated database needs time
to sleep (one disadvantage I agree) but maybe after some re-organisation and
re-classification of cells this discussion will continue ;-)

Good night!

Maurice

-----Original Message-----
From: web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:web400-bounces@xxxxxxxxxxxx] On
Behalf Of Thorbjoern Ravn Andersen
Sent: 15 November 2009 9:23 PM
To: Web Enabling the AS400 / iSeries
Subject: Re: [WEB400] Modernization?

Maurice O'Prey skrev:
> Vern Wrote
>
>   
> > Sounds like you have a product - if so, please say so. Your comments 
> > come across very skewed.
> >     
>
> No product, I just have a very basic Prototype OODBMS put together some
> years ago. I have no criticism of the databases mentioned, all I would say
> is that RDBMS has been around for quite a considerable time and with the
> expansion of OO programming languages then it would appear natural that an
> OODBMS would come along next (maybe we are ready for it now?). Possibly
this
> then could be referred to as a "Modern" approach to the database and one
> that works more akin to the human brain (I don't think mine stores
> tables..., but who knows ;-)
>
> Certainly there is room for both RDMS and OODBMS and its not one versus
the
> other. It is a topic that I am very interested in, more at
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Object_database#
>
>   
To be frank I think that object oriented databases have the same problem 
against the traditional relational databases, that J2EE things have 
against AS/400 programs.

They simply cannot outperform their non-modern counterparts!

Or at least cannot do so without a LOT of horsepower which adds up to a 
lot of money.   The problem here for object oriented databases as 
opposed to J2EE and .NET is that there is actually not a problem needing 
to be solved.

But that is just my personal opinion.  Please prove me wrong :D