This is somewhat the mirror image of relational database at the same level of maturity: they were great for queries, but navigational access sucked.
-danch
Eric Kaplan wrote:
Maybe things have changed recently, but I think the biggest thing against them (besides some of their obscene pricing policies - read ObjectStore) was their poor performance querying across very large sets of data compared to their stodgy relational counterparts.They were stillborn because they fell apart under certain conditions. Eric -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]]On Behalf Of Dan Christopherson Sent: Thursday, January 09, 2003 2:32 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [JBoss-user] Cmp vs hibernate Matthew Baird wrote:couple notes: - try selling an enterprise level application that doesn't support a "standard" rdbms on the backend (oracle/sql server/db2)Probably the second biggest thing (after fear of change) that caused ODBMS's to be stillborn: "Will <insert corporate standard reporting tool> work with it? No!?!?! How do you expect to sell it?" -danch
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