Re: java serialization alternative

Db4o. www.db4objects.com

It's dual-licensed, a la MySQL (and others).

Ted Neward
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> 
> < Trying to keep to religion-free technical discussion>
> 
> Ted Neward wrote:
> >
> > Those who use ORMs should use an OODBMS just once on a non-trivial
> project,
> > just to see what the state of the art is there. Those who use OODBMSs
> should
> > do the same. Those who use neither should investigate both. Those who
> wrote
> > their own ORM should seek medical help, immediately. :-)
> 
> Actually, I would love to try an OODBMS. The only problem is that,
> short
> of changing employers, I don't expect to work on anything new for a
> good
> long while.
> 
> The biggest reasons why I went with Derby + Hibernate are:
> 
> 1. We are resource poor and they are free.
> 
> 2. Derby, being the open reincarnation of Cloudscape, has something of
> a
> track record and is, therefore, a lower risk technology.
> 
> 3. Derby's embedded mode greatly simplifies configuration and
> installation.
> 
> Now I have been working on some independent research on the side and I
> would love to consider an OODBMS for that project. Are there any that
> are free, have proven track records with large-scale data sets and have
> an embedded mode?
> 
> Donald
> 
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