From: Sam Smoot <ssmoot@...>
Date: 2007-03-22T07:25:08+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Science

Ok. I can stand the SQL love-in no longer. :)

Anyone who's actually used db4o:

* Knows it's a perfectly viable solution for the majority of
applications out today as they don't approach it's limits performance,
or storage wise
* Knows it's a simpler database to develop for than generating reams
of mapping files or accepting the limitations of a system like
ActiveRecord
* Knows the *data* is safe because the database is open-source,
exports *very* easily, and no one is about to timebomb the frameworks
* Knows that for many common scenarios the performance will wipe the
floor with many popular RDBMS's

Oh, and "toy" comments are tired. Most developers would probably still
call Ruby a "toy" language. That doesn't mean they know something you
don't. More than likely they're just uninformed and biased. I'd hope
we could do better.