If, for example, you are already using Lotus Notes, the switch to the Lotus Domino server can install a full-fledged interactive Web site complete with discussion groups, user registration, document libraries, and Secure Socket Layer 2.0 protection in one day. If your organization has no experience with Notes, Domino is not a good choice. Considerable discussion over what types of data bases are best suited to the Web has taken place. GIF are objects. URLs are objects.
Sounds are objects.
Traditional relational databases have several significant limitations that reduce their competence as the key database for Internet activity. They have a size limit per record that is usually no more than 12-36 Kbytes. If you want to place an image into a relational database, you need to write translation code, an unnecessary effort for object databases. A number of companies now create software which eases the process of linking data bases to the Web, inputting and updating data, and searching the data base on-line. The choices for enabling a data base for the Internet include CGI, Perl, ActiveX, and Java .