From: Austin Ziegler <halostatue@...>
Date: 2005-02-20T13:51:08+09:00
Subject: Re: [EVALUATION] - E02 - Nitro, a Ruby Based WebFramework

On Sun, 20 Feb 2005 07:14:43 +0900, Martin DeMello
<martindemello@yahoo.com> wrote:
> Ilias Lazaridis <ilias@lazaridis.com > wrote:
>>> Supported (FastCGI, Postgresql, Oracle)
>> This answer referes to RDBMS. I have corrected the document to
>> contain both (RDBMS, OODBMS).
>> 
>> http://lazaridis.com/case/stack/index.html#deployment 
>> 
>> I assume at this point that nitro does not support OODBMS
>> bindings.
> Quite apart from Austin's rant on the fundamental brokenness of
> the OODBMS concept, might there not be an impedance mismatch
> between the DBMS's notion of an object and the language's?
> Singleton methods are the simplest example I can think of in the
> Ruby case, but I'm sure there are others.

Generally speaking, yes. The only OODBMS systems that will work well
with a particular language and said language's object model are
those written in that language. Generally, one won't be able to
effectivly use a Java OODBMS from a C++ program -- you need to have
the C++ implementation of the OODBMS.

The Prevalence model (Madaleine, etc.) is an OODBMS for Ruby.
There's also a few others, e.g., GOOD.

-austin
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