Jonathan Robie, in an interview with Jon Udell, captures the reason for failure of the object database market better than any explanation I've seen...
JR: OQL is a nice language. The grammar of XQuery has benefitted a lot from it, and some of the implementation has too. Of course, it wasn't commercially relevant for the object database vendors to implement OQL in any kind of complete way.JU: Because?
JR: Every object database had a different market, and a different model, and people weren't looking for interoperability between ObjectStore and POET, because why would you use them for the same thing?
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