xwu@bacall.UUCP (03/12/87)
I'm looking into the issue of building an object-oriented distributed database management system (OODDBMS). It seems to me that no one (at least in the literature) is talking about using object oriented techniques in building distributed DBMSs. Why? Aren't there advantages in this approach? Or is it too hard (DDBMS problems are already hard)? Or is it too early to do so (there are few centralized object oriented DBMSs, or DBMSs based on semantic data models, around yet)? By "object-oriented" approach, I mean both "object oriented programming" and "semantic data modeling". Any comments/references/pointers are welcome. Direct email to me would be greatly appreciated. Thanks in advance. Xinhua Wu xwu@cse.usc.edu