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From: marti@ethz.UUCP (Robert Marti)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Extended RDB vs OODB
Summary: superior OODB performance: proof? cicumstantial evidence? benchmarks?
Message-ID: <1765@ethz.UUCP>
Date: 15 Aug 89 07:31:50 GMT
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Organization: ETH Zuerich
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With respect to the ongoing debate concerning OODBs vs extended RDBs,
I'd like to see proof (make that circumstatial evidence, if you prefer)
that an OODB which supports traditional basic DBMS features such as
concurrency control, transactions, set-oriented data manipulation,
the ability to define views and to dynamically add new tables/columns,
etc. is

1) faster than a relational system for typical technical/engineering
   applications than a relational system, and

2) not much slower than a relational system for traditional business
   oriented applications.

How about some benchmarks, controversial as they may be?

Btw:  For me, functionality is a much more important point than
performance.  However, most OODB followers emphasize the superior
performance of OODBs.  So:  Put up or ...  :-)

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