Object Data Bases - What Changes Did They Have?

There were object data bases, but they never became legitimate contenders in their own right. What change was that need for massively distributed data basis? And the credibility, you will, that came from many of the internet giants saying, actually, no, i'm not going to use the relational model to store my stuff because i can't get the level of scale. I would say maybe like two different things that came around at the same time. One is the gugos and amazon and jahu and thethe letter company's putting out papers showing how these things can be done. The other, i would say, a subtle design a, a revolution, in some ways, was about the