From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.4 (2020-01-24) on polar.synack.me X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-1.9 required=5.0 tests=BAYES_00 autolearn=ham autolearn_force=no version=3.4.4 X-Google-Thread: 103376,bf02c238a92156a3 X-Google-Attributes: gid103376,public X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII Path: g2news1.google.com!news2.google.com!proxad.net!proxad.net!npeer.de.kpn-eurorings.net!rz.uni-karlsruhe.de!feed.news.schlund.de!schlund.de!news.online.de!not-for-mail From: Frank Piron Newsgroups: comp.lang.ada Subject: Re: Windows Ada database support. Date: Wed, 08 Dec 2004 13:51:12 +0100 Organization: 1&1 Internet AG Message-ID: References: <5e3e03a7.0411240431.7e037a4e@posting.google.com> <2004112420030750073%david@bottoncom> <11w2chxxtggn9.a442ecwtujd2$.dlg@40tude.net> <1jrbh30djhwuh$.cpwm02mv7d1d.dlg@40tude.net> <18u46qzjs6s8v.19927r9ay0kkh.dlg@40tude.net> NNTP-Posting-Host: p508b56ea.dip0.t-ipconnect.de Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; format=flowed; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Trace: online.de 1102510284 4205 80.139.86.234 (8 Dec 2004 12:51:24 GMT) X-Complaints-To: abuse@einsundeins.com NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 8 Dec 2004 12:51:24 +0000 (UTC) User-Agent: Opera7.23/Win32 M2 build 3227 Xref: g2news1.google.com comp.lang.ada:6840 Date: 2004-12-08T13:51:12+01:00 List-Id: Am Wed, 08 Dec 2004 11:19:02 +0000 schrieb Marius Amado Alves : >> ... I would like to view it as a distributed system >> and get rid of the notion of DB altogether. Only persistent objects. No >> I/O, just memory-mappings. [ Clearly, in any short term perspective it >> is >> an utopia. ] (Kasakov) > > Utopia? There are currently persistent and prevalent object systems for > Ada and Java and probably other languages. I recall Prevayler for Java, > and at least one persistent system for Ada (isn't that actually by > yourself?). The problem is they force an object oriented model which as > has been argued does not always fit the application domain well. > In a past project i considered Cach� as an alternative to pure relational databases (see http://www.intersystems.com/cache/technology/index.html). I discussed the possibility of writing an Ada Binding to Cach� with consultants from Intersystems. They seemed to be interested, but then on a customer demand we were forced to choose big O. -- Frank Piron, defrankatkonaddot (leftrotate two)