Can someone explains how anybody is willing to even give a chance to a software product that is sold like this? [1]

* Generic/"bootstrappy" looking site, mostly marketing speak.

* Not even one code example of what it looks like to solve a problem with this DB.

* Gigantic "Get a Trial" button that links to a lengthy form that I'm sure has 99% abandonment rate.

There are a lot of other software products that are marketed like this, so I'm genuinely curious how this works.

1: https://www.actian.com/data-management/nosql-object-database...

> "the website uses bootstrap, the product must be crap"

congrats on speaking about a product you haven't even tried.

I've used Versant back in 2001. It was terrific and very fast, but wasn't a good fit for reporting/analysis.

Versant was building systems that were updated on the fly without shutdown, which was quite an achievement back then (and probably still is: Imagine updating a running instance of PostgresQL)

The company I work for runs dozens of Versant instances and it generally is immensely fast and rock solid.

The Object-Oriented Database (OODBMS) space is basically just Versant. Actian however seems not to be developing it actively anymore and it's generally not that much advertises (they rebranded it as "Actian NoSQL" apparently).

I wonder if anybody else still uses it (besides us).

Versant, while an awesome ORM, taught me that I hated ORMs ;)

Versant is not an ORM

Shit, been so long I forgot. Versant was cool. Too many databases floating around in my head :/

TopLink was the ORM that made me hate ORMs.