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.
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