From owner-freebsd-current Tue Mar 3 08:10:08 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id IAA02912 for freebsd-current-outgoing; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:10:08 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from ns.mt.sri.com (sri-gw.MT.net [206.127.105.141]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id IAA02827 for ; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 08:09:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from nate@mt.sri.com) Received: from mt.sri.com (rocky.mt.sri.com [206.127.76.100]) by ns.mt.sri.com (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id JAA03276; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:09:32 -0700 (MST) (envelope-from nate@rocky.mt.sri.com) Received: by mt.sri.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4) id JAA29162; Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:09:27 -0700 Date: Tue, 3 Mar 1998 09:09:27 -0700 Message-Id: <199803031609.JAA29162@mt.sri.com> From: Nate Williams MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: shimon@simon-shapiro.org Cc: Michael Hancock , current@FreeBSD.ORG, jak@cetlink.net, opsys@mail.webspan.net, smp@csn.net, Terry Lambert , "John S.Dyson" , Nate Williams Subject: Re: 3.0-RELEASE? In-Reply-To: References: X-Mailer: VM 6.29 under 19.15 XEmacs Lucid Sender: owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > ODI's ObjectStore is faster than Oracle, Sybase, or Informix. Much > > faster. > > Does it support a true relational model? Not really. > Purely OO database engine is > heirarchial in nature and better be faster than a relational. It depends. If you data is organized in such a manner that heirachial (sp?) data access is faster, then it's a win. But, if you end up having lots of 'built-in' relationships that aren't necessarily obvious or setup apriori from the objects themselves, then it can be *much* slower. Nate To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message