Path: utzoo!attcan!uunet!cimshop!davidm
From: davidm@cimshop.UUCP (David Masterson)
Newsgroups: comp.databases
Subject: Re: Extended RDB vs OODB
Summary: RDB performance?
Message-ID: <458@cimshop.UUCP>
Date: 10 Aug 89 17:06:51 GMT
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Organization: Consilium Mt. View CA
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In-reply-to: jack@odi.com's message of 9 Aug 89 17:37:18 GMT

>On the other hand, many CAD/CAM and CASE developers have bypassed
>relational DBMSs due to performance problems.
>
Could you elaborate on the performance problems in this case?  I mean is it
inherit in what the CAD/CAM or CASE developers are doing that leads to
performance problems with relational databases or is it just they chose the
wrong (aka. slow) relational database system?  Perhaps there are things that
OODBMSs can be optimized to do better than a relational database system, but I
still think that a relational database can provide a strong foundation for an
object-oriented database.  I'd like to hear why that can't be true.

David Masterson
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