Reasons for using ORDBMS over RDBMS

Why do we need ORDBMS / Reasons for using ORDBMS / Advantages of ORDBMS

 

Reasons for having ORDBMSs over conventional RDBMSs

• Storage requirements of newer applications - Conventional RDBMSs cannot handle the data like engineering designs, scientific experiments, GIS, and multimedia data.

• Handling of data stored for newer applications – retrieve and manipulate data stored for newer applications like other data with RDBMS functionalities.

• Ability to define user defined data types – to handle new type of data as and when required.

• Reusability nature of objects – One of the main features of using objects, and methods.

• Database extensibility – easy addition of data types and operations

And finally, the inability of RDBMS to handle the above said things.