2014-04-25 17:44 GMT-03:00 Sven Van Caekenberghe <s...@stfx.eu>: > > On 25 Apr 2014, at 22:20, Esteban A. Maringolo <emaring...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> So coming back to Pharo realm, this is why I think ORM is really >> important for us, and I'm really happy this discussion finally took >> place. > > But one of his points was that ORM layers made SQL obsolete by hiding much of > its power, the ability to do (query and other) processing on the DB.
You're right. But once stored in a RDBMS you can do a lot of things with the data, using all its power. I certainly don't expect to do OLAP with millions of rows converted to objects in the client (Pharo) side. As a disclaimer I have to admit I'm completely ignorant of "BigData" things such as Hadoop and similar, I barely grasp their main purpose. > BTW, I don't think there is such a thing as transparent persistency. Certainly there isn't. Particularly for Objects. Regards! Esteban A. Maringolo
