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Date:      Wed, 29 May 2002 16:22:26 -0400
From:      Bill Moran <wmoran@potentialtech.com>
To:        "Lance M. Westerhoff" <lmw188@psu.edu>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: DB2 on FreeBSD??
Message-ID:  <3CF53882.70209@potentialtech.com>
References:  <E05EFBFC-7337-11D6-B5D0-00039357F10C@psu.edu>

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Lance M. Westerhoff wrote:

>> Have you considered PostgreSQL?  It's another _extremely_ powerful
>> open-source database.
> 
> Agreed.  A little more research may be in order here.  Do you know if 
> either MySQL or PostgreSQL offer any Object Oriented or Object 
> Relational support (like Oracle)?  Biological systems are inherently 
> object oriented and over the coming months I'll be exploring OO DBMS to 
> see what I can see.  I have focused exclusively on RDBMS's such as MySQL 
> (the databases are currently fully implemented with MySQL), but OO seems 
> interesting (at least for certain types of applications).

Personally, I'm still trying to understand the difference between
"object oriented" and "object relational".
PostgreSQL claims to be "object relational" and specifically states that
they aren't all the way to being "object oriented" yet.
MySQL doesn't seem to have much in the way of "object" features yet.
Their development tradeoff seems to be focusing on speed, reliability,
etc instead of "bleeding-edge" features.

-- 
Bill Moran
Potential Technology
http://www.potentialtech.com


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