Choosing Between a Relational and an Object Database

This talk needs someone who has experience working in both relational and object databases, or perhaps a panel consisting of those who do.

How do you do queries?
How do you do joins?
What about ACID?
Why think about this? Database problems were solved long ago.
RDBs have a deep mathematical basis, worthy of respect.
OODBs seem like anarchy.
RDBs are language-independent. What about OODBs?
RDB implementations are optimized through years of real-world experience. OODBs can't compete.

The presenter should be aware that this is one of those areas where people have pretty strong feelings of loyalty for the system that they know best.

(suggestions donated by David Binger of the Durus community)


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	Choosing Between a Relational and an Object Database This talk needs someone who has experience working in both relational and object databases, or perhaps a panel consisting of those who do. How do you do queries? How do you do joins? What about ACID? Why think about this? Database problems were solved long ago. RDBs have a deep mathematical basis, worthy of respect. OODBs seem like anarchy. RDBs are language-independent. What about OODBs? RDB implementations are optimized through years of real-world experience. OODBs can't compete. The presenter should be aware that this is one of those areas where people have pretty strong feelings of loyalty for the system that they know best. (suggestions donated by David Binger of the Durus community)
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