What ever happened to the Matrix database?
Alejandro Garcia
The Eiffel language binding (EiffelMatisse) was a collaborative effort between Eiffel Software Inc. and Matisse Software Inc. It enables new or existing Eiffel applications to use Matisse and is fully maintained by Matisse Software.
The use of the Eiffel language to manipulate persistent data gives the developer a fast and easy way to build and deploy Eiffel applications. There is no learning curve for the Eiffel developer, who can focus instead on the development of application components.
EiffelMatisse implements a "persistence by reachability" mechanism in order to ease the management of Eiffel persistent objects. An Eiffel object maintaining a reference to a persistent object will automatically become persistent.
The multimedia capabilities of the EiffelMatisse Interface allow developers to create innovative applications manipulating media assets such as animation, sound tracks, or videos.
To ease the development of persistent classes, the application schema can be automatically generated from Eiffel classes.
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Bertrand Meyer
It became MATISSE in all upper case after, or so I heard, a complaint by the painter’s descendants.
All that was written there was correct, of course. The Eiffel-MATISSE combination was a great offering. What happened:
- Other OO languages were not really OO so the appeal of a seamless programming+DB OO framework was not obvious to their users.
- OO databases in general petered out because the relational vendors were able to persuade the market that it did not need them, and for their part the OODB vendors did not have the time to develop answers to challenges of DB programming other than the data model, such as transactions, concurrency, ACID properties etc.
It's really too bad, but working with MATISSE was a great pleasure and the result was good.
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Alejandro Garcia
Does anyone have a contact there?
that I could reach out to get the files? (linux, eiffel binding)
I *need* to see this marvel with my own eyes.
Because it reads too good to be true.
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