By bloid
via almaer.com
Published: Apr 21 2008 / 10:53
Remember when the Object database was going to kill the Relational database?
OOP was the sexy programming model, and relational set theory seemed so quaint. Once you are using Objects, why wouldn’t you just want to persist them instead of having to drop down to this crazy SQL? Inner joins instead of just person.name.first? Fools.
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jtheory replied ago:
I know I have a huge investment in standard relational databases, because it took a long time to sort out how to do complicated but efficient data manipulations & mining in SQL. Any non-trivial application moves very quickly into a realm where I (and lots of people like me) have a hard time even imagining how to work with the data in any other way -- we're used to designing relational data stores, and working with those designs effectively. There's a larger step to get to a new paradigm here than there is in (for example) using a new programming language.
dzonelurker replied ago:
A "new paradigm" is pointless unless it's a better paradigm.
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