From owner-freebsd-current Mon Mar 2 22:54:35 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id WAA16602 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:54:35 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from sendero.simon-shapiro.org (sendero-fxp0.Simon-Shapiro.ORG [206.190.148.34]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id WAA16591 for ; Mon, 2 Mar 1998 22:54:26 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from shimon@sendero-fxp0.simon-shapiro.org) Received: (qmail 22659 invoked by uid 1000); 3 Mar 1998 07:01:27 -0000 Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.3-alpha-030198 [p0] on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: Date: Mon, 02 Mar 1998 23:01:27 -0800 (PST) Reply-To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Organization: The Simon Shapiro Foundation From: Simon Shapiro To: Michael Hancock Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? Cc: current@FreeBSD.ORG Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On 03-Mar-98 Michael Hancock wrote: > On Mon, 2 Mar 1998, Simon Shapiro wrote: > >> > ODI's ObjectStore is faster than Oracle, Sybase, or Informix. Much >> > faster. >> >> Does it support a true relational model? Purely OO database engine is >> heirarchial in nature and better be faster than a relational. > > I think it's weak in this respect. Yes, it should be faster. > >> BTW, having a SQL interpreter is NOT an evidence of a relational model. > > I think it has a rudimentary SQL interpreter. ``Ein Hadash Tachat Hashemesh'' - ``Nothing new under the sun...'' We have (finally) come a full cirlcle to Network databases. ---------- Sincerely Yours, Simon Shapiro Shimon@Simon-Shapiro.ORG Voice: 503.799.2313 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message