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Object Databases - Free Software
db4objects
db4o Open Source Object Database
Open source object database for Java and .NET. Free GPL download includes an interactive
tutorial to get started quickly.
Software | Basic | English | LINK
| 2009
Objectivity
Objectivity/DB - Trial download
A 60 day free trial download of the scalable, high performance distributed ODBMS
product for C++, Java, Python, Smalltalk or SQL/ODBC applications running on Linux
or Windows.
Software | Basic | English |
LINK (registration required) | 2009
Intersystems
Caché Post-relational
Database
A free, fully-functional, non-expiring, single-user version of Caché.
Software | Basic | English |
LINK | 2009
Progress Software
ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java or C++ - Trial downloads
Develop high-performance ODBM environments in Java or C++
Free eval of PSE Pro, single process version of ObjectStore Enterprise
Software | Basic | English |
LINK (registration required) | 2009
Versant
Versant's ODBMSs - Trial downloads
Versant Object Database: for complex data storage in C++ and Java.
Versant FastObjects .NET: for .NET applications with complex object models
Software | Basic | English |
LINK (registration required) | 2009
Databeans
Databeans is a fully object oriented persistence
framework for java, based on the use of javabeans accessor methods to read/write data on disk in
place of in class instance fields, available under GPL.
Software | Basic | English | LINK(DOWNLOAD) | 2009
EyeDB Object Oriented Database Management System
Advanced object model, object definition language based on ODMG ODL, an object query
and manipulation language based on ODMG OQL and programming interfaces for C++ and
Java.
Software | Basic | English | LINK | 2009
GemStone Systems
GLASS a free ODBMS for the Seaside
web framework.
GLASS: GemStone, Linux, Apache, Seaside, and Smalltalk.
Software | Basic | English |
LINK | 2009
McObject
Download an open source / evaluation copy of the Perst™ embedded database
for Java or .NET.
Software | Basic | English |
LINK | 2009
Peter Baumann,
Jacobs University
Rasdaman: An open-source array DBMS with an OQL-style query language and ODMG-conformant C++ and Java APIs for retrieving and manipulating multi-dimensional arrays (rasters) of unlimited size.
Software | Basic | English | LINK | May 2009 | ***
Tilburg University--ConceptBase
ConceptBase is a multi-user
deductive and object-oriented database system for meta modeling and
method engineering (FreeBSD-style license)
Software | Basic | English | LINK | 2008
PolePosition on SourceForge
The Open Source Database Benchmark
Open source benchmark that helps to assess performance implication of using ODBMSs,
RDBMSs and ORMs.
Software | Basic | English | LINK | 2005 | ****
Awais Rashid (Principal
Investigator)
AspOEv: An Aspect
Oriented Evolution Framework for ODBMS
This project aims at employing an aspect-oriented approach to facilitate customisation,
extension and exchange of the schema modification, structural and behavioural consistency
strategies in an object database evolution framework.
Software | Advanced | English |
LINK | 2004 | ***
Kazimierz Subieta
Asking SBQL queries addressing imported XML files
This project allows you to import any number of XML files to the ODRA store in the
M0 store model (no classes). After the import you can ask SBQL queries and observe
their results.
Software | Advanced | English |
LINK | 2006 | ***
University of Bonn
GeoWeb
provides software tools for geo-scientists to achieve a consistent non-redundunt
storage and efficient access for 3D-modelling data.
Software | Basic | English |
LINK | 2005 | ***
Suzanne Dietrich,
Dan Suceava, Chakrapani Cherukuri,
Susan Urban
ObjectManager for Objectivity/DB
provides a reusable graphical user interface written in Java(Swing) for populating
and browsing an Objectivity/DB object-oriented database.
Software | Basic | English |
LINK | 2001 | ***
Object Databases - Lecture Notes
Michael Grossniklaus,
Moira Norrie, ETH
Zürich
Object Oriented Databases - Excellent, Complete and up to date lecture series(Version 2009).
For the 2009 version of ETH Zurich's lecture on Object-oriented databases a number of additions and updates have been made:
- New lecture providing a Versant tutorial
- New lecture discussing different OODBMS architectures
- Updated lectures on db4objects incorporating new features such as transparent persistence and activation.
- Updated lectures on the OM model of data, OML and OMS Avon
- Many corrections of errata throughout the whole course.
Lecture 1:
035.01 Introduction:
• Course Overview • Evolution/History of Database Management Systems
• Requirements of Object-Oriented Data Management Systems.
Lecture 2:
035.02 Object Persistence• Object-Relational Mappings and Frameworks •Serialisation
• Persistent Programming Languages
Lecture 3:
035.03 db4o Part1 • Basics: Managing databases, • Storing and Retrieving Objects
Querying Objects: Query by Example, • Native Queries, • SODA Simple and Structured Objects, • Object Hierarchies, Activation
Transactions: Concurrent Transactions, • Semaphores
Lecture 4:
035.04 db4o Part2 • Configuration and Tuning: Configuration Interface, • Indexes
Distribution and Replication: Client/Server Model, • dRS
Schema Evolution: Refactoring, Inheritance Evolution
Callbacks and Translators
Lecture 5:
035.05 ODMG Standard • Object Model Object Definition Language (ODL) • Object Query Language (OQL)
• Programming Language Bindings
Lecture 6* part I:
035.06 Commercial OODBMS: Part 1 • Objectivity/DB for C++ • ObjectStore PSE Pro for Java
Lecture 6 part II:
035.06 Commercial OODBMS: Part 2 • Versant Object Database for Java • OODBMS Architectures
Lecture 7:
035.07 Storage and Indexing • Type Hierarchy Indexing • Aggregation Path Indexing • Collection Operations
Lecture 8:
035.08 Version Models • Temporal Databases
•Engineering Databases
• Software Configuration Systems
Lecture 9:
035.09 The OM Data Model• Multiple Inheritance, • Instantiation and Classification
Collections and Associations
Cardinality, • Classification and Evolution Constraints
Lecture 10:
035.10 Object Model Language: OML • Collection Algebra
Language Design
Data Definition, • Manipulation and Query Language
Lecture 11**:
035.11 Avon Implementation•Architecture: Storage • Model and Interface Layer
• Object Identifiers • Query Processor
Lecture 12:
035.12 Support for Context Aware Data Management
Lecture 13:
035.12 Course Review • Ongoing Research • Student Projects
• Exam Information
*with Beat Signer
Lecture | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 | ****
Holger Märtens, Fachhochschule Braunschweig/Wolfenbüttel
Objektbasierte
Datenbanken
Lecture notes, exercises and other information for a course on object databases.
Lecture | Basic | German |
LINK | March 2006 | ***
Norman Paton, University
of Manchester
014.01 Object Databases
Very comprehensive lecture notes on object databases.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) or
(PPT) | August 2005 | ***
Panagiotis I. Chountas,
University of Westminster
013.01 RDBMS versus ORDBMS versus OODBMS
Great lecture notes and script on object persistence and ODBMS.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | August 2005 | ***
Adam Stevenson, Texas A&M University
003.01
Object Oriented Databases
Lecture notes on object databases.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) or
(PPT) | June 2005 | ***
Jim Paterson, Bell
College
004.02 Object
Persistence
Great lecture notes and script on object persistence and ODBMS.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) or
(PPT) |
DOWNLOAD Script (PDF) | December 2004 | ***
Harri Porten, KDE Community World Summit 2004
Object Prevalence
A recent presentation on ODBMS and object prevalence.
Lecture | Basic | English |
LINK | 2004 | **
Kjetil Nørvåg
Papers on Parallel Object
Database Systems
Portal with links on parallel ODBMS, not actively maintained any more.
Lecture | Professional | English |
LINK | 2003 | ***
Object Databases - Tutorials
Apache CouchDB
CouchDB Tutorial.
CouchDB Tutorial slides presented at ICOODB09
Tutorial | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 |
Databeans
Fully object oriented persistence for java version 2.0
Tutorial | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009
db4objects
Formula 1 Tutorial for Java or
.NET
New version of the db4o tutorials: with new features and a new OME.
The quick start to get up and running with db4o's object database in 5 minutes or
less.
Tutorial | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD for JAVA (PDF) or
.NET (PDF) | 2009 | ****
Object Database Tutorial
Rick Cattell
Object Database Tutorial.
Object Database Tutorial slides presented at ICOODB09
Tutorial | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 |
GemStone
Learning Web Development with Seaside.
Seaside is a free, open-source (MIT License) web application development framework written in Smalltalk. This tutorial covers Seaside, GLASS, and persistence using the GemStone/S ODBMS.
Tutorial | Basic | English | LINK | 2009 |
McObject
Perst for Java or .NET- Introduction and Tutorial.
Perst™ open source, dual license, object-oriented embedded database system
for Java or .NET.
Tutorial | Basic | English |
for Java (LINK) | or
for .NET (LINK) | 2009 |
McObject
Tutorial: Introduction to Perst Lite and ProScout Example MIDlet.
Perst Lite is an open source, object-oriented embedded database system for Java ME-based mobile devices.
Tutorial | Basic | English | LINK | 2009 |
ConceptBase
Manfred Jeusfeld, Tilburg University
Metamodeling for Method Engineering, Slides of a course based on ConceptBase
The slides are under a
permissive Creative Commons license.
Tutorial | Basic | English |
LINK | 2008 |
Object Databases - Articles and Papers
David Chappell.
Introducing Windows Azure.
White paper describing Microsoft Windows Azure. The "Tables" abstraction in Windows Azure is
similar to some "nosql databases".
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2009 | ***
Moira Norrie, Michael Grossniklaus, et. al.,
ETH Zürich
Semantic Data Management for db4o
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, presents a semantic data management layer
for db4o which supports role modelling, associations and a declarative query language
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2008 | ***
Erik Meijer, José Blakeley
The Microsoft perspective on ORM
Interview in ACM Queue Magazine with Erik Meijer and José Blakeley. With LINQ (language-integrated
query) and the Entity Framework, Microsoft divided its traditional ORM technology
into two parts: one part that handles querying (LINQ) and one part that handles
mapping (Entity Framework).
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | September 2008 | ****
Ruihua Jin, Marco Piccioni, ETH Zürich
Eiffel for .NET Binding for Db4o
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, describes the implementation of the necessary
Db4o framework classes to make it usable within Eiffel applications
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2008 | ***
Mikael Kopteff, Haaga-Helia-University
The Usage and Performance of Object Databases Compared with ORM Tools in a Java
Environment
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, presents an empirical comparison of various
ORM tools and object databases for Java
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2008 | ***
Sten Friedrich, TFH Berlin
RINQ Concept of a Ruby Integrated Query Language
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, presents an approach to integrate Ruby and
Object Databases
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2008 | ***
Kazimierz Subieta,
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Stack-Based Approach (SBA) and Stack-Based Query Language
(SBQL)
Introduction to object-oriented concepts in programming languages and databases,
SBA and SBQL
New sections on
persistence,
impedance mismatch, and collections. Portal | Intermediate | English |
LINK | 2008 | ***
Kazimierz Subieta
et. al., Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Stack-Based Architecture and Stack-Based Query Language
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, presents fundamental ideas and topics of
SBA and SBQL
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
Kazimierz Subieta
et. al., Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
SQBL Object Views
- Unlimited Mapping and Updatability
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, focuses on SQBL object views to enable unlimited
mapping and updatability
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
Kazimierz Subieta
et. al., Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
Recursive Query Processing in SQBL
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, focuses on Recursive Query Processing in
SQBL
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
I.E. Shanthi, R. Kirutthika, R. Nadarajan
An Indexing Method for Handling Queries on Setvalued Attributes in ODBMS
The paper, a submission to ICOODB 2008, proposes a signature-based indexing method
for object-oriented query handling
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2008 | ***
Jiang Li, Ram M.
Narayanan, Austin Peay State University
Integrated Information Mining and Image Retrieval in Remote Sensoring
This White Paper describes the application of ODBMS to deal efficiently with very
complex data.
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | October 2007 | ***
Jiang Li, Austin
Peay State University
Hierarchical Land Cover Information Retrieval in Object-Oriented Remote Sensing
Image Databases with Native Queries
This White Paper describes the application of Native Queries in complex image databases.
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | November 2007 | ***
Dan Weinreb
Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Succeeded
One of the co-founder of Object Design, Dan Weinreb rebuffles Prof. Michael Stonebraker's
criticism on ODBMS.
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | 2007 | ***
Jim Paterson, Glasgow
Caledonian University
Using an Object-Oriented Database in a Web Site
This article explains how to build a website with an object database in .NET.
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | 2007 | ***
Pieter van Zyl et.al.,
University of Pretoria
027.01 Comparing the Performance of Object Databases and ORMs
This paper investigates performance of the db4o object database and Hibernate, an
ORM tool. The OO7 benchmark was used to compare these two technologies against each
other.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | September 2006 | ***
Paper | Basic | English | Erratum
(PDF) | August 2007 | ***
Kazimierz Subieta,
Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology
030.01 Odra - Object-oriented Rapid Database Application Development
Odra is a next-generation object-oriented environment for rapid database application
development. This paper describes the motivation, general assumptions and Odra's
architecture
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | January 2007 | ***
Tore Risch, Johan Petrini,
Uppsala University
Scalable SQL Queries to RDF Views
of Relational Databases
RDF-Schema is an object-oriented data model which can be used to represent and query
SQL databases.
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2007 | ***
George Feuerlicht,
et. al.
Object-Relational Database Design:
Can Your Application Benefit from SQL:2003?
Proceedings of the 16th International Conference on Information Systems Development
(ISD2007) Galway, Ireland, August 29-31, 2007.
Paper | Intermediate | English |
LINK | 2007 | ***
Christian Merenda,
OOMEGA
036.01 Lost
in Translation
The author explains the benefits of ODBMS by differentiating the various concepts
and discussing them separately. Itturns out that object and relational databases
are on the way to converge to each other.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | November 2007 | ***
Mohammeed Zaki et.al.,
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
DMTL: A Generic Data Mining Template
Library
Paper on object-oriented "generic" data mining based on the "Data Mining Template
Library".
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2006 | ***
Daniel F. Lieuwen,
H.V. Jagadish, AT&T Bell Labs
Multi-granularity Locks in an Object-Oriented Database
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2006 | ***
Stefan Edlich, TFH
Berlin
Das ODBMS-System
db4objects
An introduction to the ODBMS db4o which has accelerated interest in object databases
recently.
Article | Basic | German |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2006 | **
Ted Neward
The
Vietnam of Computer Science
Article discussing the problems of the O/R mismatch in the light of the Vietnam
war analogy.
Article | Basic | English |
PDF | 2006 | ****
William Cook et.al.
OOPSLA Panel Objects and Databases
Transcript of a high ranking panel on objects and databases at the OOPSLA conference
2006, with representatives from BEA, db4objects, GemStone, Microsoft, Progress,
Sun, and Versant.
Transcript | Basic | English |
PDF | 2006 | ****
Rick Grehan
006.02
The Database Behind the Brains
Makes the case for a small, embeddable object database. Includes db4o code samples.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2006 | ***
Stefan Edlich, Jim Paterson, et. al.
The Definite Guide to db4o
Chapter 3:
002.02 Comparing the Object and the Relational Data Model
Chapter 5:
Quick Start
Chapter 8: 002.03
Client/Server Mode
3 free chapters, Apress, 2006, ISBN 1-59059-656-0.
Book | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD Chapter 3 (PDF),
LINK Chapter 5,
DOWNLOAD Chapter 8 (PDF) | June 2006 | ***
Leon Guzenda, Objectivity
Inc.
025.01 The Evolution of a Distributed, Federated Object Query Engine
This White Paper describes the evolution of the general purpose Objectivity/DB object
database from a homogeneous, navigational object access tool to a distributed, federated
(heterogeneous) query engine.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | June 2006 | ***
Rick Grehan
006.01 Complex
Object Structures
Explores how object databases absorb complex object structures. Includes db4o code
samples.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | May 2005 | ***
Rick Grehan
006.04 When to Use
an ODBMS
Some basic guidelines when deciding whether to use an ODBMS.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2005 | ****
Rick Grehan
006.03 ODBMS for RDBMS
Users
A basic introduction to ODBMS for RDBMS users.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2005 | ****
Jim Paterson, Bell
College
Prevalence:
Transparent, Fault-Tolerant Object Persistence
Describes the use of the Prevayler in-memory database.
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | June 2005 | **
Ouri Wolfson, University
of Illinois at Chicago
DOMINO: Moving Objects Databases
The project DOMINO (Databases fOr MovINg Objects tracking) develops a prototype
database system for tracking mobile units
Paper | Intermediate | English |
LINK | 2005 | ***
Andrew Wade, Objectivity Inc.
029.01 Hitting
the Relational Wall
This paper makes the case for selecting an object database when the applications
require information models to support relationships, new data types, extensible
data types, and direct support of objects.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2005 | ***
Carl Olofson, IDC
Embedded Databases: The Invisible Engine That Could
Object databases excel as embedded databases, fueled by open source offerings.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK (PDF) | August 2005 | ***
Stefan Edlich
OODBMS Schema Refactoring
Catalogue
Object database schema refactoring catalogue project
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | December 2005 | ***
Jim Paterson, Bell
College
Simple Object Persistence
with the db4o Object Database
Describes the use of the db4o object database.
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | December 2004 | **
Ouri Wolfson et.
al., University of Illinois at Chicago
Managing Uncertainty
in Moving Objects Databases
This article covers the problem of managing objects that can change location. Applications
for such approach are for example spatial databases.
Article | Advanced | English |
LINK (PDF) | September 2004 | ***
Ouri Wolfson, Hu
Cao, Goce Trajcevski, University of Illinois at Chicago
Spatio-temporal Data
Reduction with Deterministic Error Bounds
Proc. of the ACM DIALM-POMC Joint Workshop on Foundations of Mobile Computing, San
Diego CA
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2003 | ***
Awais Rashid, Ruzanna
Chitchyan
Persistence as an Aspect
The authors argue that it is possible to aspectise persistence in a highly reusable
fashion.
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2003 | ***
Vincent Coetzee, Robert Walker, GemStone
Experiences using an ODBMS for a High-Volume Internet Banking System
Case Study demonstating the use of ODBMS in a high volume transactional system.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | October 2003 | ***
Serge Shumilov,
University of Bonn
Integrating existing Object-Oriented Databases with distributed Object Management
Platforms
PhD Thesis developed and evaluated on the example of ObjectStore and CORBA.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK | 2003 | ***
Matt Culbreth, 15 seconds
Using Object Databases in .NET
Object databases and .NET sampling Matisse.
Article | Basic | English | LINK
| April 2003 | **
Dan Shusman, Intersystems
Oscillating Between
Objects and Relational: The Impedance Mismatch
Paper describes the use of the post-relational database Caché to overcome the object-relational
impedance mismatch.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2002 | ***
Dare Obasanjo
Object Oriented
Database Management Systems
This paper explores use cases for ODBMS and shows code examples.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK | 2001 | **
Julian Bunn et. al.,
California Institute of Technology
022.01 The GIOD Project - Globally Interconnected Object Databases
Project in Pasadena, CA, USA, and CERN, Geneva, Switzerland
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2000 | ***
David Jordan
038.01 An Object Database for Embedded Environments
Reprinted with permission from Java Report. © 2001, by 101communications LLC.
All rights reserved
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | April 2000 | ***
Liam Quin
Introduction to Object Oriented Databases
Introduces to the basic concepts of object oriented databases.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK (DOC) | 2000 | **
Serge Shumilov,
Armin B. Cremers,
University of Bonn
eXtensible Database Adapter
This paper describes the first hand experience gained in implementing remote CORBA
access for the object-oriented database ObjectStore.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK (PDF) | 2000 | ***
Thad Scheer, Theresa Smith, Lockheed-Martin Mission System
032.01 Accelerating Your Object-Oriented Development
The article presents a user experience of implementing object persistence using
a relational database and illustrates the technical problems related this choice
and the alternative of using an object database.
Article | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 1999 | ***
A. Albano et. al.,
University of Pisa
040.01 View Operations on Objects with Roles for a Statically Typed Database Language
1999
A technical report on the Type Rules and the Operational Semantics.
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 1999 | ***
Gregory McFarland et.al., DACS Report
Object-Oriented Database
Management Systems Revisited
Outdated ODBMS product comparison for the Air Force Research Laboratory
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK | 1999 | **
Steve McClure, IDC
Object Database
vs. Object-Relational Databases
Though outdated, this paper helps to understand the difference between ODBMS and
ORDBMS.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK | 1997 | **
Steve Hand and Jane Chandler
Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases
Very visual introduction to ODBMS.
Paper | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | September 1998 | **
Joe Celko and Jackie Celko, Byte
Debunking Object-Database Myths
A defense for ODBMS at the height of the battle against RDBMS that cleans up with
some common misconceptions of ODBMSs. Though old still true.
Article | Basic | English |
LINK | October 1997 | ***
Bell Labs Database Systems Research Department
ODE Object Database
Resource page with collections of papers from 1989-1996
Paper | Intermediate | English |
LINK | 1996 | **
Daniel F. Lieuwen,
Alcatel-Lucent
Optimizing And Parallelizing Loops In Object-Oriented Database Programming Languages
The purpose of this section is not to exhaustively enumerate the types of queries
that can be optimized, but rather to demonstrate that the ideas in this thesis can
be implemented and can significantly improve performance.
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 1992 | ***
Daniel F. Lieuwen,
David F. DeWitt, Manish Mehta
Parallel Pointer-based Join Techniques for Object-Oriented Databases
This paper describes four parallel pointer-based join algorithms for set-valued
attributes. Pointer-based joins will be common in next-generation object-oriented
database systems, so efficiently supporting them is crucial to the performance of
such systems.
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 1993 | ***
Daniel F. Lieuwen,
David F. DeWitt
Optimizing Loops in Database Programming Languages
Database programming languages like O 2 , E, and O++ include the ability to iterate
through a set. Nested iterators can be used to express joins. We describe compile-time
optimizations of such programming constructs that are similar to relational transformations
like join reordering.
Paper | Advanced | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 1991 | ***
Malcolm Atkinson et.al.
The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto
A key document in the ODBMS history.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK | 1995 | ****
Object Databases - User Reports
User Report 1/08: Gerd Klevesaat at Siemens
Segment: Industry - Automation
User: Gerd Klevesaat - Software architect - Siemens, Germany
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 2/08: Pieter van Zyl at CSIR
Segment: Academia
User: Pieter van Zyl
- Researcher - CSIR, South Africa
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 3/08: Philippe Roose at Liuppa
Segment: Academia
User: Philippe Roose
- Ass. Professor / Researcher - LIUPPA, France
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 4/08: William Westlake at SAIC
Segment: Industry - Medical
User: William Westlake - Principal Systems Engineer - SAIC, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ****
User
Report 5/08: Stefan Edlich at TFH Berlin
Segment: Academia
User: Stefan Edlich
- Professor - TFH Berlin, Germany
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 6/08: Udayan Banerjee at NIIT
Segment: Industry - Various
User: Udayan Banerjee - CTO - NIIT, India
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 7/08: Nishio Shuichi at ATR
Segment: Industry - Robotics
User: Nishio Shuichi - Senior Researcher - ATR Labs, Japan
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report
8/08: John Davies at Iona
Segment: Industry - Finance
User: John Davies - Technical Director - Iona, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report
9/08: Scott Ambler at IBM
Segment: Industry - Various
User: Scott Ambler
- Practice Leader - IBM Rational, Canada
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 10/08: Mike Card at Syracuse
Segment: Industry - Defense
User: Mike Card - Researcher
- Syracuse, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report 11/08: Rich Ahrens at Merrill Lynch
Segment: Industry - Finance
User: Richard Ahrens - Director - Merrill Lynch, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ****
User Report 12/08: Ajay Deshpande at Persistent
Segment: Industry - Various
User: Ajay Deshpande - Senior Architect - Persistent, India
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report 13/08: Horst Braeuner at City of Schwaebisch Hall
Segment: Public - Government
User: Horst Braeuner - CTO, CIO - City of Schwaebisch Hall, Germany
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report 14/08: Tore Risch at University of Uppsala
Segment: Academia
User: Tore Risch -
Professor - University of Uppsala, Sweden
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 15/08: Michael Blaha at OMT
Segment: Industry - Consulting
User: Michael Blaha
- Principal - OMT Associates, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 16/08: Stefan Keller at HSR Rapperswil
Segment: Academia
User: Stefan Keller
- Professor - HSR Rapperswil, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ****
User Report 17/08: Mohammed Zaki at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute
Segment: Academia
User: Mohammed Zaki
- Associate Professor - Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, USA
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report 18/08: Peter Train at Standard Bank
Segment: Industry - Finance
User: Peter Train - Architect - Standard Bank, South Africa
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User
Report 19/08: Biren Gandhi at IBM
Segment: Industry - Consulting
User: Biren Gandhi - Architect - IBM, Germany
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User
Report 20/08: Sven Pecher at IBM
Segment: Industry - Consulting
User: Sven Pecher - Senior Consultant - IBM, Germany
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User
Report 21/08: Frank Stuch at IBM
Segment: Industry - Consulting
User: Sven Pecher - Managing Consultant - IBM, Germany
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 22/08: Hiroshi Miyazaki at Fujitsu
Segment: Industry - Various
User: Hiroshi Miyazaki - Methodology - Fujitsu, Japan
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User
Report 23/08: Robert Huber at 7r
Segment: Industry - Various
User: Robert Huber - Managing Director - 7r, Switzerland
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 24/08: Thomas Amberg at Oberon
Segment: Industry - Various
User: Thomas Amberg - Software Engineer, Oberon, Switzerland
User Report | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | ***
User Report 25/08: Martin F. Kraft
Segment: Industry - Logistics
User: Martin F. Kraft - Application Architect, Shipping Company (not disclosed),
USA
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 26/08: Serena Pizzi at Banca Fideuram
Segment: Industry - Finance
User: Serena Pizzi - Responsible Application Management Back End, Banca Fideuram
SpA, Italy
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 27/08: Dan Schutzer at FSTC
Segment: Industry - Financial Services
User: Dan Schutzer - Director, FSTC, USA
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 28/08: Peter Fallon at Castle Software Australia
Segment: Industry - Software development and consulting
User: Peter Fallon - Director , Castle Software Australia, Australia
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 29/08: Benny Schaich-Lebek at SAP
Segment: Industry - ERP
User: Benny Schaich-Lebek - Product Management, SAP, Germany
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 30/08: Stephan Kiemle at German Aerospace Center
Segment: Industry - Aereospace
User: Stephan Kiemle - Chief software engineer, German Aerospace Center DLR, Germany
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2008 | **
User Report 31/09: Alexander Jaehne at Major Swiss Bank
Segment: Industry - Finance
User: Alexander Jaehne - Application Infrastructure & Integration Team Lead, Switzerland.
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 | **
User Report 32/09: Dr. Andreas Geppert at Credit Suisse, Switzerland.
Segment: Industry - Finance
User: Dr. Andreas Geppert - Platform Architect,Credit Suisse, Switzerland.
User Report | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 | **
Persistence Patterns
The following are the Common Persistent Model Patterns submitted to the ODBMS.ORG Awards:
Matthew Barker, Director of System Engineering, Versant Corp.
Large Persistent Collection.
Intent: This pattern sub-divides a large persistent collection into smaller component collections using a balanced
tree structure.
1 Pattern | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF)| May 2009 |
Robert Greene
, Vice President, Versant Corp.
Persistent Versioned Graph Pattern.
Intent: A persistent versioned object graph for time sensitive retrieval of deep object graphs.
1 Pattern | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | May 2009 |
Lenny Hoffman, Todd Stavish, Dr Nic Caine, Brian Clark. Objectivity, Inc.
Dynamic Schemas in object database management systems (ODBMS)
Through the lifetime of a system processing and data requirements change resulting in changes to the underlying object model. Managing these changes without having to take the application down is a key requirement in many of these systems. This paper discusses ways to manage these changes.
1 Pattern | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | May 2009 |
Derek Laufenberg, Versant Corp.
Back-Pointer Managed Collection.
Intent: This pattern eliminates the growth of the parent collection object, thus improving performance.
1 Pattern | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF)| May 2009 |
Derek Laufenberg, Versant Corp.
Split Class Pattern.
Intent: This pattern splits a class into a few supporting classes for improving system
performance.
1 Pattern | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF)| May 2009 |
Richard Lingeh, Principal Consultant, Versant
Schema Builder 2nd Best ODBMS.ORG Pattern Awards!
This paper presents 1 Pattern which allows any further evolution of a database after a complete modification of the client
application model to be done by a separate schema process and not by the client application or by the schema it generates.
This separate process generates a database schema that matches the complex evolving client application
model.
1 Pattern | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF)| May 2009 |
Adrian Marriott
, Principal Consultant, Progress Software Inc.
14 Persistent Object-Oriented Patterns.
This paper outlines a series of common OO patterns (13 patterns and 1 anti-pattern) that have been encountered in the past decade working with ObjectStore based systems on major projects across all industry sectors:
[] Bespoke Indexes, 3rd Best ODBMS.ORG Pattern Awards!
[] Compress Persistent Data,
[] Database Manager,
[] Evolver,
[] Frame,
[] Head/Body,
[] OO Anti-Patterns,
[] Persistent Mutex,
[] Persistent Queue,
[] Persistent Singleton,
[] Query Visitor, Best ODBMS.ORG Pattern Awards!
[] Small Object Pool Allocator,
[] String Table,
[] Transaction Memento.
14 Patterns | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | May 2009 |
Eugenia Stathopoulou, Panos Vassiliadis
Design Patterns for Relational Databases.
Presents 4 patterns for relational databases on top of which, object-relational or other structures can be applied.
[] Querying,
[] Schema Modifications,
[] Storage,
[] Updates,
4 Patterns | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF)| May 2009 |
Takenori Sato
Probabilistic Graph Model
Presents Patterns for ODBMS and Graphs.
1 Pattern | Intermedikate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | May 2009 |
Object Databases - Portals
Barry and Associates
Object Database Articles
One of the most important references on object databases and beyond in the Web from
Doug Barry.
Portal | Basic | English |
LINK | 2000-2004 | ****
ODMG.ORG
ODMG Reading Room (2001)
A collection of ODBMS resources related to the ODMG standard as of 2001, hosted
by ODBMS.ORG.
Portal | Basic | English | LINK | 1993-2001
| ***
Tokyo University of Science, Cetus Links
Object-Oriented Database
Management Systems
Another great collection of links on objects and ODBMS.
Portal | Basic | English |
LINK | January 2003 | ***
Lancaster University
Aspect-Oriented
Databases
Work at Lancaster applying AOP to develop more evolvable and adaptable object database
systems.
Portal | Intermediate | English |
LINK | 2005 | ***
Object-Oriented Programming
Free software |
Lecture notes |
Tutorials |
Articles and papers
OO Programming - Free Software
OOMEGA Model-driven Software Engineering for
ODBMS
Object-oriented modelling and code generation for object databases.
Free GPL download includes ready-made templates for db4o.
Software | Basic | English | LINK | 2006 | ***
Tore Risch, Uppsala
University
Amos II
An object-oriented and functional system for querying distributed and heterogeneous
data sources.
Software | Basic | English | LINK
| September 2005 | ***
Donghui Zhang, Northeastern
University
NEUStore
Tutorial including download link for NEUStore - a simple Java package for the construction
of disk-based, paginated, and buffered indices.
Software | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | September 2005 | ***
OO Programming - Lecture Notes
Jose Blakeley, Microsoft
The Entity
Framework
Slides of a presentation on the Entity Framework given at the AMCIS 2007 conference.
Lecture | Intermediate | English |
LINK | 2007 | ***
Peter Forster, Winterthur
Insurance
Object Persistence Design Guidelines
Design Guidelines when persisting objects in a relational database.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2005 | ***
Philippe Roose, LIUPPA/Laboratoire
d'Informatique Appliquée de l'UPPA
Java Network: RPC and RMI Mechanisms Using Java
On serialization of Java objects, RPC and RMI.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) or
(PPT) | 2005 | ***
Philippe Roose, LIUPPA/Laboratoire
d'Informatique Appliquée de l'UPPA
JDBC - How to...
How to access data in Java from RDBMS via JDBC.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | August 2005 | ***
Chris Smith, MindIQ
Java and Databases
Persistence strategies for Java; incl. EJB, Hibernate, JDO and db4o.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) or
(PPT) | May 2004 | ***
Serge Shumilov,
University of Bonn
Persistenz von Objekten
Very comprehensive (197 pages) lecture notes on Object Persistence strategies incl. ODBMS, RDBMS,
JDBC, SQLj, OR-Mappers incl. Hibernate, JDO, EJB
Lecture | Basic | German |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | September 2004 | ***
OO Programming - Tutorials
Sun, The Java Tutorial
Object-Oriented Programming
Concepts
A great tutorial to get acquainted with OOP.
Tutorial | Basic | English |
LINK | ****
Giuseppe Castagna,
Ecole Normale Superieure
Foundation of Object-Oriented
Programming - A Full Day Tutorial
Provides the theoretical background needed to study foundation of object-oriented
programming and gives a unified presentation of several theoretical models of object-oriented
languages.
Tutorial | Basic | English |
LINK | ***
OO Programming - Articles and Papers
Ajay Deshpande, Pratik Soares Sameer Thakur.
Persistence Model Patterns A Practitioner’s View
This article discusses a solution for building complex systems using an Object Relational Model.
Paper | Basic | English |DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 |
Miguel Garcia, Rakesh Prithiviraj, TU Hamburg
047.01 Rethinking the Architecture of OR Mapping for EMF in terms of LINQ
This paper focusses on demands placed on Object-Relational Mapping (ORM) in order
to support comprehensive queries, as known from LINQ and Scala.
Paper | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | October 2008 | ***
Epaminondas Kapetanios, Sue Black, University of Westminster
041.01 On the Notion of Semantic Metric Spaces for Object and Aspect Oriented Software
Design
This paper discusses a theoretical framework for software design metrics, which
conceives parameters as dimensions of a metric space.
Article | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2008 | ***
Michael Grossniklaus
035.13
Context-Aware Data Management
An Object-Oriented Version Model, ISBN-10: 3836429381.
Book | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2007 | ***
Ted Neward, Oren "Ayende"
Eini
ORM Smackdown
- Transcript
Transcripts of the Panel discussion "ORM Smackdown" on different viewpoints on Object-Relational
Mapping (ORM) systems, courtesy of FranklinsNet.
Article | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | May 2007 | ***
Scott Ambler, Ambysoft
The Object-Relational
Impedance Mismatch
Scott explores the technical and the cultural impedance mismatch between the relational
and the object world.
Paper | Basic | English |
LINK | 2002-2005 | ****
Stephanie Balzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ)
Contracted
Persistent Object Programming
This paper introduces a new approach to persistent programming, that is based on
orthogonal persistence, but constrained to the object-oriented case.
Paper | Intermediate | English |
LINK (PDF) | November 2005 | ***
Ernesto Damiani et.
al., University of Milan
020.01 Accessing Identity Data via EJB
A simple yet effective technique for interfacing an identity database with EJB technology.
Article | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | November 2005 | ***
Gene Shadrin, JDJ
Three Sources of a Solid Object-Oriented
Design
Article discusses the relationship between three sources of a solid OO design and
offers a starting point to object-oriented design.
Article | Basic | English | LINK
| May 2005 | ***
David Jordan
038.04 A Comparison between JDO, Serialization, JDBC
A Comparison between Java Data Objects (JDO), Serialization, JDBC for Java Persistence.
Article | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | March 2002 | ***
David Jordan
038.02 The JDO
Object Model
Reprinted with permission from Java Report. © 2001, by 101communications LLC.
All rights reserved
Article | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | June 2001 | ***
David Jordan
038.03 An Overview of Suns Java Data Objects Specification
Reprinted with permission from Java Report. © 2001, by 101communications LLC.
All rights reserved
Article | Intermediate | English |
DOWNLOAD (PDF) | June 2000 | ***
Antony Hosking, Jiawan
Chen
PM3: An Orthogonally
Persistent Systems Programming Language
PM3 is an extension of the Modula-3 language, supporting persistence by reachability
from named persistent roots.
Article | Basic | English |
LINK (PDF) | 1999 | ***
Eliot Moss, Antony Hosking
Approaches to Adding
Persistence to Java
Article | Basic | English |
LINK (PDF) | 1996 | ***
Quintin Cutts, Antony Hosking
Analysing, Profiling
and Optimising Orthogonal Persistence for Java
Article | Basic | English |
LINK (PDF) | 1997 | ***
Database in General
Lecture notes
Lecture Notes
Jim Arlow
JDBC Tutorial
How to build data access with JDBC.
Lecture | Basic | English |
DOWNLOAD | July 2005 | ***
Jérôme Darmont, ERIC, Université Lumière - Lyon 2
Advanced Databases
Object programming in databases (with applications in Oracle SQL and PL/SQL).
Lecture | Basic | French |
LINK | 2005 | ***
Suzanne W. Dietrich,
Susan D. Urban
Database Curriculum Examples
Associated with the book: An Advanced Course in Database Systems: Beyond Relational
Databases,Prentice Hall, 2005.
Lecture | Basic | English | LINK | 2005
| ***
Jeffrey Ullman, CS 145 at Stanford
University
Relevant lecture notes:
001.01
Embedded SQL, CLI, JDBC (PDF) |
PPT
001.02
Object-Relational DBMSs (PDF) |
PPT
001.03
Semistructured Data XML (PDF) |
PPT
001.04 ODL OQL (PDF)
| PPT
001.05 Additional
ODL OQL (PDF) |
PPT
Lecture | Basic | English | DOWNLOADS | Fall 2004 | ***
Link Partners
ODBMS.ORG in Japanese