From: James Edward Gray II <james@...>
Date: 2007-03-29T10:07:34+09:00
Subject: Re: Object/Relational Mapping is the Vietnam of Computer Sci

On Mar 28, 2007, at 7:54 PM, Austin Ziegler wrote:

> There's no theory behind OODBs, much less relational theory. OODBs are
> ways to serialize your object graph.

OK Austin, I'll give you 100% of that statement.  Let's say you are  
completely right.

Who says *that* isn't useful?

Ruby includes Marshal, YAML, and PStore for these uses, right?   
Arguably one of their biggest weaknesses is that they have to restore  
the entire graph before they can do anything with it right?  If an  
OODB can eliminate that one restriction, wouldn't that put it leaps  
and bound ahead of all three of these libraries?

I don't know about you, but I use all three of those a lot.  So it  
seems a simple OODB has some value for me.

James Edward Gray II