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Can I persist my objects using serialization instead of using a relational or object database?

April 26, 2017database object objects persist Relational serialization

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Can I persist my objects using serialization instead of using a relational or object database?

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Location: http://www.jguru.com/faq/view.jsp?EID=1198 Created: Nov 22, 1999 Modified: 1999-12-22 23:57:02.944 Author: Govind Seshadri (http://www.jguru.com/guru/viewbio.jsp?EID=14) No. While serialization is a highly versatile mechanism having numerous applications, your long term storage needs should continue to be addressed by conventional relational or object databases. Note that serialization does not provide any features for transaction management and concurrency control. Nor does it provide typical database features like indexed access, caching and a query language.