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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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