Thread: Onject Database Survey ... Help needed ...

I recently got sent a survey to fill out that is meant to compare various
Object databases ... there are ~20 sections to this thing, asking
questions ranging from General Architecture to interactions with External
DBMSs ... and *alot* of questions that I've no experience in, and,
therefore, no answers to ...

I've HTMLized it as best as I can and put the resultant sections up at
http://www.postgresql.org/survey ...

I'm just starting to go through the sections, so right now, none of them
have answers yet ... if ppl could help by reading through and providing
answers so that I can provide as accurate of information as possible, it
should give for a good initial showing for PgSQL on the Object stage ...

I don't need the whole section answered ... for instance, there is a
section on Mapping_Objects_To_External_DBMS, that have sub-sections like:

===============  C++ Map Generation Processing
  This table describes the process for generating the mapping.


  processing .h files
  processing generated C++ files
  external run-time via reflection
===============

getting an email back with the section name and the sub-section
cut-n-paste with an appropriate 'Yes' or 'No' after each 'question' would
be great, and I'll merge that back into the HTML itself ...

Thanks ...

Marc G. Fournier                   ICQ#7615664               IRC Nick: Scrappy
Systems Administrator @ hub.org
primary: scrappy@hub.org           secondary: scrappy@{freebsd|postgresql}.org

The Hermit Hacker <scrappy@hub.org> writes:

> I'm just starting to go through the sections, so right now, none of them
> have answers yet ... if ppl could help by reading through and providing
> answers so that I can provide as accurate of information as possible, it
> should give for a good initial showing for PgSQL on the Object stage ...

I honestly don't make sense of some of the survey questions. On the Java
Map Generation for instance, I feel the possible are answers is not close
to reality  at all - and there is not very much pgsql specific work in this
process either... I usually have a XML representation of the schema that is
transformed by XSL into SQL schema and docs. The same XML schema is then
used to create the basic object model for the schema by using straight
class to relation mapping. 

regards, 
Gunnar