OO/OR-DBMS Summary
Traditional SQL is too limited for new apps
OODBMS: persistent OO programming
- difficult to use, no query language
ORDBMS: best (?) of both worlds
- catching on in industry and applications
- pretty easy for SQL folks to pick up
- still has growing pains (SQL-3 standard not fixed yet, only Informix & IBM really sell it)
- SQL being extended with (yet another) OO data model
- still need interfaces to other languages.