[OFBiz] Users - entity engine vs other persistence layers

[Oliver Lietz]

Am Freitag, 11. November 2005 11:58 schrieb Andreas Schmidt:
> hi,
>
> starting a new project, i'm thinking about the basic architecture and
> which components to use. since it's a small project, using the whole
> ofbiz-framework seems to be overdone. but i will need a persistence
> layer for the new application. and since i'm curious on using
> ofbiz-components in a real project, i think about using the entity engine.
>
> before making a decision, i want to compare the entity engine to other
> possible sollutions (e.g. jdo, hilbernate, castor). can someone give me
> some hints about such comparisons. especially i'm interested in the topics:
> - performance (of course)
> - robustness (error recognition, transactions),
> - extensibility (of the data-model while there is allready data in the
> database)
> - flexibilty (using something like sql-joins to combine entites)
> - usage (ease of usage, modelling/maintenance-tools)
[...]

"PolePosition is a benchmark test suite to compare database engines and 
object-relational mapping technology."
http://www.polepos.org
http://today.java.net/pub/a/today/2005/06/14/poleposition.html

Oliver