Entries in Architecture (3)

Terracotta - the return of OODBMS?

Posted on Friday, December 12, 2008 at 07:04AM by Registered CommenterKarl Reitschuster in , | CommentsPost a Comment | References3 References | EmailEmail

Do you remember?

About 10 years ago OODBMS (Poet, Gemstone, Versant, ...) seemed to be starting to replace RDBMS; The idea for using OODBMS was simple - if the programming model is OOP why not persist Objects with an OODBMS directly instead of populating it's properties and class hierarchy into a couple of tables? It was the reason Oracle 8 came with object relational features; But they (OODBMS) failed for following reason:

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Oracle 12 the Green Database - Oracle 12 Eco

Posted on Tuesday, October 14, 2008 at 12:54PM by Registered CommenterKarl Reitschuster in , , , , | CommentsPost a Comment | EmailEmail

Now living in a time of financial crisis and a growing gap of natural resources
a new paradigma - a new database paragdima is needed.

For Oracle 12 i think this could be Oracle 12 Eco;

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Accessing Application Data only via PL/SQL Procedures?

Posted on Thursday, June 7, 2007 at 04:32PM by Registered CommenterKarl Reitschuster in | Comments2 Comments | References1 Reference | EmailEmail

Dear reader,

frequently i hear from different sources that a solid access to the Database must be based on a PL/SQL API - a technique wrapping Table access with PL/SQL. Currently i support a project developing a CRM system based on C#/.NET 2.0 and using an ORM (Object Relational Mapper) to store the content of the application. At the beginning of the project i was indeed sceptical about this approach. But on the long run i experienced it as a remarkable alternate approach interfacing a database for an application.

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