Interesting! The new BDB Java release does attempt to store objects directly. That's quite an advance in comparison to the awkward API of BDB 2.x.
However BerkeleyDB JE is still years behind db4o. The querying functionality of BDB is very rudimentary. It requires manual selection of indexes to be used, not really sophisiticated in comparison to db4o's Query-By-Example and Native Query concepts.
It would be interesting to see BerkeleyDB and db4o race head to head in the Poleposition benchmark.
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Interesting! The new BDB Java release does attempt to store objects directly. That's quite an advance in comparison to the awkward API of BDB 2.x.
However BerkeleyDB JE is still years behind db4o. The querying functionality of BDB is very rudimentary. It requires manual selection of indexes to be used, not really sophisiticated in comparison to db4o's Query-By-Example and Native Query concepts.
It would be interesting to see BerkeleyDB and db4o race head to head in the Poleposition benchmark.