Fisher-Rosemount - Object Oriented Databases vs Relational Databases
Object Oriented Database vs Relational Database
Fisher-Rosemount
(Manufacturing, Process Control)
Fisher-Rosemount, one of the leading process control equipment and system providers, supplies to a large variety of industries, including pharmaceuticals. Their highly distributed systems include active microprocessors to control every valve and switch, all monitored by workstations networked together, allowing both real-time control of process parameters (such as temperature, pressure, etc.) as well as collection of historical data (for later query to determine actual process conditions during the manufacture of particular batches of drugs, for example, correlating these with the actual device/machinery where they originated).
The lead designer offers this description, motivation for using Objectivity/DB, and comparison to RDBMSs:
We have made a very good decision.
