OStatic

The talk of RailsConf, the conference for Ruby on Rails that ended yesterday, was Gemstone's demonstration of MagLev, an implementation of Ruby that not only runs on Smalltalk, but that has access to Gemstone's highly scalable, very fast object database.ﾠ For years, web developers have worked with relational databases; does Gemstone's announcement mean that this is going to change in the near future?ﾠ Or are we getting too excited over a demo, ignoring real-world considerations that explain why relational databases remain popular, despite the aesthetics of object databases?