What are the benefits of using an object database management system (ODBMS)?
A. From my perspective, there are two primary benefits in using this technology. Both benefits reflect a basic idea — when you use an ODBMS, the way you use your data is the way you store it. The first benefit can be found in development. When you use an ODBMS, you will write less code than if you were writing to an RDBMS. The reason for the smaller amount of code is simple — when you are using Java or C++ — you won’t have to translate into a database sub-language such as SQL, ODBC, or JDBC. You will be writing in the programming language. The result is less code. In many cases, this code be as much as 40 percent less. The corollary to this is that any data structure that you can imagine in Java or C++ can be stored directly without translation in an ODBMS. This is an important thought. You can store very complex data structures directly in an ODBMS. The second benefit, which is related, occurs in production. If you are working with complex data, an ODBMS can give you performance th
