On Sat, Oct 21, 2006 at 03:34:42PM -0700, Mike Orr wrote: > If > you want to use objects rather than a relational database, why not go > all the way? Becuase SQL servers and SQL langauge have a lot of facilities OODBs dont. Langauge-independence (you can write clients in any language), scalability (ZODB's and Durus' FileStorages maintain an in-memory index, which is a problem for tasks with millions of objects) administration tools, access permissions, relational algebra. Oleg. -- Oleg Broytmann http://phd.pp.ru/ phd@phd.pp.ru Programmers don't die, they just GOSUB without RETURN.