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Summary - Object Oriented Databases vs Relational Databases

Object Oriented Database vs Relational Database

Summary

For simple data structures and operations, these benchmarks show that Objectivity/DB, the leading ODBMS, is comparable to the leading RDBMS. As complexity increases, it shows that the RDBMS performance slows exponentially while Objectivity/DB maintains linear performance. This dramatic exponential difference quickly scales to two orders of magnitude (100x), and beyond as size and complexity continue to increase. For SQL ad hoc queries, and for ODBC tools, the benchmark shows, similarly, that Objectivity/SQL++ and the RDBMS are comparable for simple data, but Objectivity/DB becomes much faster as complexity increases. Actual users have measured similar, and even more dramatic performance advantages of ODBMSs, up to 1000x faster (see Cimplex, next section). It is only a matter of how complex the application is.

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