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From: richieb@ritz.mordor.com (Richard Bielak)
Subject: Re: What Are Truly Compelling Reasons To Use OODBMS ?
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Date: Mon, 24 Jul 1995 21:47:50 GMT
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In article <3uuqdm$2ut@ixnews5.ix.netcom.com>,
Michael Zuckerman  <mtz@ix.netcom.com> wrote:
>I still don't get it.
>

Why use an OODBMS? Because it allows you to solve your problem in
a timely and efficient manner.

For example, how would you represent a queue - that is an ordered
list of items - in a relational table?

In fact there are many structures that are needed by various types of
programs that also need to be stored in a database, and these
structures cannot be easily mapped into tables. Trees, graphs, etc.


[...]
>
>When you add all of these things to the issue of technical merit, the
>scale tips far enough to define a $75 million dollar annual market.
>Only in the CAD/CASE niche has a compelling need for performance
>brought oodbms products into significant market share.
>

I think that OODBMS will play larger and larger part in finacial
applications. Some of the financial instruments being designed
today are quite complex to represent.

Also, what about all those mainframce IMS systems? It would be much
easier to move them to OODBMS (mapping records to objects), rather
than redesigning everything into relational tables.

...richie


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