Eric Falsken recently joined the db4o team as technical evangelist after spending a few years working on embedded medical devices as a db4o user. He has been a staunch supporter of Microsoft .NET (much to the chagrin of his open source?loving co-workers) and enjoys coming up with new ideas for elegantly usable software, and mentoring fellow students of software. You can read his blog at www.everylittlething.net/blog/.
Here's a question: If you write your application's code in an OO language -
such as C#, VB.NET, or managed C++ - why not write database query and update
code in the same language? It would certainly make life simpler, wouldn't it?
At the very least, you'd only have to hold one language in your head - not
your programming language and SQL.
That's the very least of the advantages you'd gain by choosing an OO database
instead of an RDBMS. The metaphor "impedance mismatch" has frequently been
used to illustrate the problems that arise from using a relational database
as the back end to an OO application. Admittedly, it's a somewhat overused
metaphor, but it still serves its purpose. It illustrates the fact that
relationships among objects - referencing, containment, polymorphism, and so
on - must be translated into relational constructs when those objects are
stored in... (more)
Eric Falsken recently joined the db4o team as technical evangelist after spending a few years working on embedded medical devices as a db4o user. He has been a staunch supporter of Microsoft .NET (much to the chagrin of his open source?loving co-workers) and enjoys coming up with new ideas for elegantly usable software, and mentoring fellow students of software. You can read his blog at www.everylittlething.net/blog/.
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