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Object Databases

Object Databases - Free Software

OO7J benchmark
Pieter van Zyl and Espresso Research Group.
OO7J is a Java version of the original OO7 benchmark (written in C++) from Mike Carey, David DeWitt and Jeff Naughton = Univ Wisconsin-Madison. The original benchmark tested ODBMS performance. This project also includes benchmarking ORM Tools. Currently there are implementations for Hibernate on PostgreSQL and MySQL, db4o and Versant.
Software | Advanced | English | User Manual.(LINK)| The code is available on Sourceforge.(LINK)| Access is through SVN directory.(LINK) | February 2010.

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 | 2010

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) | 2010

Intersystems
Caché Post-relational Database
A free, fully-functional, non-expiring, single-user version of Caché.
Software | Basic | English | LINK | 2010

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) | 2010

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

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

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 (Version 2010)
NEW IN 2010: Updated slides on db4o to reflect the API of the latest version. Extended the discussion of OQL in the lecture about ODMG 3. In-depth presentation of commercial systems (Versant Object Database, ObjectStore and Objectivity/DB) in completely new and dedicated lectures #8, #9 and #10. To increase diversity, Versant is coupled with Java, ObjectStore with C++ and Objectivity/DB with C#. Finally, LINQ has been introduced into the course as part of the Objectivity/DB lecture.

PART 1: BASICS OF OBJECT DATABASES
Lecture #1: Introduction (Course Overview; Evolution/History of Database Management Systems; Requirements of Object-Oriented Data Management Systems)
Lecture #2: Object Persistence (Object-Relational Mappings and Frameworks; Serialisation; Persistent Programming Languages)
Lecture #3: db4o: Part 1 (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: db4o: Part 2 (Configuration and Tuning: Configuration Interface, Indexes; Distribution and Replication: Client/Server Model, dRS; Schema Evolution: Refactoring, Inheritance Evolution; Callbacks and Translators)
PART 2: ADVANCED CONCEPTS OF OBJECT DATABASES
Lecture #5: Version Models (Temporal Databases; Engineering Databases (CAD and CAM); Software Configuration Systems (CASE))
Lecture #6: Storage and Indexing (Type Hierarchy Indexing; Aggregation Path Indexing; Collection Operations)
Lecture #7: ODMG Standard (Object Model; Object Definition Language (ODL); Object Query Language (OQL); Programming Language Bindings)
Lecture #8: Commercial OODBMS: Versant (Versant Object Database for Java; Java Versant Interface (JVI); Versant Query Language (VQL))
Lecture #9: Commercial OODBMS: ObjectStore (ObjectStore PSE Pro for C++; Virtual Memory Mapped Architecture; Managing Persistent Object Data)
Lecture #10: Commercial OODBMS: Objectivity/DB (Objectivity/DB for .NET; Logical Storage Model: Federated Databases; Language Integrated Queries (LINQ))
PART 3: THE OMS FAMILY OF OBJECT DATABASES
Lecture #11: The OM Data Model (Multiple Inheritance, Instantiation and Classification; Collections and Associations; Cardinality, Classification and Evolution Constraints)
Lecture #12: Object Model Language: OML (Collection Algebra; Language Design; Data Definition, Manipulation and Query Language)
Lecture #13: Design and Implementation: OMS Avon (Architecture; Storage, Model and Interface Layer; Database Modules)
Lecture #14: Course Review (Exam Information; Summary; OODBMS Architectures)
COURSE DESCRIPTION: The course examines the principles and techniques of providing data management in object-oriented programming environments. It is divided into three parts that cover the road from simple object persistence, to object database management systems and to advanced data management. The lecture notes contain 446 slides that are split into 14 lectures of 90 minutes each. At ETH Zurich, the course is accompanied by weekly exercises based on db4o, Versant Object Database, ObjectStore, Objectivity/DB and OMS Avon. Further details are available at http://www.globis.ethz.ch/education/oodb.
TARGET GROUP: Students of Computer Science in the 5th semester or higher.
PREREQUISITES: Database design and implementation, Object-oriented design and programming.
Lecture | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (zip-PDF)| 2010 | ****

Martin Hulin, Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten.
Modern Database Techniques.
Excellent, Complete and up to date lecture note series (397 slides).
Content and Course Structure:
Learning module 0: Course Information, Welcome: 1 h
Learning module 1: Introduction to Object Oriented Databases: 4 h
Learning module 2: Concepts of Object Oriented Databases: 40 h
Learning module 3: Client Application and Language Binding: 20 h
Learning module 4: Advanced storage concepts, performance tuning: 10 h
Learning module 5: System Management: 20 h
Learning module 6: Security in Databases: 10 h
Learning module 7: Distributed and Mobile Databases: 25 h
Web conference: Exam Preparation: 2 h
Target group: Students of Computer Science in 5th semester or higher. Prerequisites: Relational Databases, SQL, Object Oriented Programming, UML. Duration: Student workload: 120 h –150 h. Lecture and supervised exercises: 64 lessons (45 min).
For all exercises, Martin uses the object oriented database management system Caché from InterSystems.
Lecture| Intermediate|English| DOWNLOAD (PDF)| 2010 | ****

Beat Signer, Vrije Universiteit Brussel.
Introduction to Databases Object and Object-Relational Databases.
This lecture notes (40 slides) describe the problem of Impedance Mismatch, and then present the basic concepts of Object Databases and Object-Relational Databases.
Lecture | Introductory | English | DOWNLOAD (.PDF) | June 2010 |

Adrian Marriott
Persistent OO Patterns.
Lecture notes given at ICODB 2009, presents several Common Persistent Model Patterns for Performance and/or Scalability Optimization, among them “Query Visitor” which received the ODBMS.ORG Best Persistent Model Patterns Awards 2009. Query Visitor represents a query to be performed on the elements of a persistent object structure. Query Visitor allows you to define new result set formats without changing the underlying persistent object model, and avoids polluting the persistent classes with rendering logic.
Lecture | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF). | July 2009 |

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 | ****

Object Databases - Tutorials

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 | ****

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
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

Pieter van Zyl, University of Pretoria.
Performance investigation into selected object persistence stores.
This dissertation presents OO7J, a Java version of the original OO7 benchmark. The original benchmark tested ODBMS performance. This work also includes benchmarking ORM Tools and compares Hibernate on PostgreSQL and MySQL, db4o and Versant.
Dissertation | Advanced| English | DOWNLOAD (187 pages PDF) |February 2010.| ***

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 | ****

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | **

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
The Technology and Business of ObjectStore.
Daniel Weinreb.
An old but interesting blog post by Daniel Weinreb (co-founder of ObjectStore) giving his thoughts on the technical story behind the creation of the ObjectStore object-oriented database management system.
Blog | Basic | English | LINK | 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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ****

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ***

Object Databases - User Reports

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 |

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 |

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 |

Object Databases - Videos

Robert Greene
Using Versant - hands on distributed objects.
This 45 ` demo presents the use of the Versant object database. In particular, it shows how to take a pure in-memory Java application and make it fully persistent using Eclipse IDE. Further it shows how to make the application fault tolerant via synchronous replication with literally the click of a button, demonstrates object migration across physical databases while maintaining a fully connected object model in the application space, shows how to build and use a parallel query over a logical sub-grouping of physical databases. Finally, the demo ends with a quick into performance optimization and removal of the N+1 problem of network access to connected data.
Demo Video | Intermediate | English | LINK | February 2010

Object Databases - Portals

Object-Oriented Programming

Free software | Lecture notes | Tutorials | Articles and papers

OO Programming - Free Software

OO Programming - Lecture Notes

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 | ***

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 | ***

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 | ***

Databases in General

Lecture Notes | Journals |

Lecture Notes

Journals

The VLDB Journal
The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases
Springer Berlin Heidelberg
This journal is all about the advancement of information system architectures and the development of novel database applications. Impact Factor: 6.8 (2008)
Download free sample copy (LINK).
Journal | Advanced | English | LINK (for more information and to subscribe to ToC alert)| 2010 |

Distributed and Parallel Databases, An International Journal.
Springer US.
Distributed and Parallel Databases provides a focus for the presentation and dissemination of new research results, systems development efforts, and user experiences in distributed and parallel database systems.
Download free sample copy (LINK).
Journal | Advanced | English | LINK (for more information and to subscribe to ToC alert)| 2010 |

New Generation Computing.
Ohmsha Ltd.
Supporting the development of new computational paradigms stemming from the cross-fertilization of various research fields, such as programming (logic, constraint, functional, object-oriented), distributed/parallel computing, knowledge-based systems and agent-oriented systems. The journal presents theoretical and practical papers. Download free sample copy (LINK).
Journal | Advanced | English | LINK (for more information and to subscribe to ToC alert) | 2010 |

Journal of Intelligent Information Systems
Integrating Artificial Intelligence and Database Technologies
Springer US
A forum wherein academics, researchers and practitioners may publish high-quality, original and state-of-the-art papers describing theoretical aspects, systems architectures, analysis and design tools and techniques, and implementation experiences in intelligent information systems.
Download free sample copy (LINK).
Journal | Advanced | English | LINK (for more information and to subscribe to ToC alert) | 2010 |

World Wide Web
Internet and Web Information Systems
Springer US
An international forum for researchers, professionals, and industrial practitioners to share their rapidly developing knowledge and report on new advances in Internet and web-based systems. The journal also focuses on all database- and information-system topics that relate to the Internet and the Web, particularly on ways to model, design, develop, integrate, and manage these systems.
Download free sample copy (LINK).
Impact factor: 1.763 (in 2009)
Journal | Advanced | English | LINK (for more information and to subscribe to ToC alert) | 2010 |

NoSQL Data Stores

Free Software | Articles, Papers, Presentations| Tutorials, Lecture Notes

Free Software

Apache Cassandra
The Apache Cassandra Project develops a highly scalable distributed database, bringing together Dynamo's fully distributed design and Bigtable's ColumnFamily-based data mode Download the latest stable release of Apache Cassandra
Software | Intermediate | English |LINK | 2010

HyperGraphDB
HyperGraphDB: A general purpose, extensible, portable, distributed, embeddable, open-source data storage mechanism (available under LGPL license). Download HyperGraphDB.
Software | Intermediate | English | LINK| 2010

InfoGrid
InfoGrid: an open-source internet graph database with REST-ful web frontend. Represents information as nodes and edges which may be dynamically typed according to freely definable conceptual models. Choice of storage backends. Can dynamically include and keep up-to-date externally-managed information "as-if" it was native to InfoGrid. Software | Intermediate | English | LINK| 2010

Neo4j
Neo4j: a high performance open-source embeddable or standalone graph database. Good integration via Java, Grails, PHP, .NET, REST, Rubyetc. High Availability and Online-backup available. Software | Intermediate | English | LINK | 2010

OrientDB
OrientDB: Scalable Document based DBMS that uses the features of the Graph Databases to handle links. 100% Java. It can work in schema-less mode, schema-full or a mix of both. Supports indexing, fluent and SQL-like queries. It handles JSON and XML documents. Software | Intermediate | English | LINK | 2010

Hypertable
Hypertable: Modeled after Google's Bigtable project, Hypertable is an open source software designed to manage the storage and processing of information on a large cluster of commodity servers, providing resilience to machine and component failures. Download Hypertable 0.9.2.7 (September 18, 2009)
Software | Basic | English | LINK | 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

Articles, Papers, Presentations

Brian Clark.
Cloud Computing and Advanced Relationship Analytics.
Graph technology offers a superior solution for relationship analytics requirements, enabling organizations to traverse any number and complexity of relationships in virtually any amount of distributed data, from any number of sources and types, in near real time, and on the same commodity hardware obtained through cloud computing platform providers.
Article | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF). | April 2010 |

Marko A. Rodriguez and Peter Neubauer.
The Graph Traversal Pattern.
In applied computing, since the late 1960s, the interlinked table structure of the relational database has been the predominant information storage and retrieval model. With the growth of graph/network-based data and the need to efficiently process such data, new data management systems have been developed. In contrast to the index-intensive, set-theoretic operations of relational databases, graph databases make use of index-free, local traversals. This article discusses the graph traversal pattern and its use in computing.
Article | Advanced | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | April 2010 |

Jeff Dean Google Fellow.
Designs, Lessons and Advice from Building Large Distributed Systems.
This talk, given at the Large and Distributed Systems workshop (LADIS2009), has some information near the end about a new storage system being worked on at Google called Spanner.
Presentation | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009| ***

Joshua Greenbaum.
Rethinking Data Analysis and Reporting.
Unlike relational database management systems, which use a records-based storage approach, or column-oriented databases which use a column-based storage method, a correlation database uses a value-based storage (VBS) architecture in which all data is indexed -- every value in every field -- and unique data values are stored once and only once, no matter how often the value appears and regardless of its original location, all in one giant data store.
Article | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | June 2009 |

Joseph Foley.
When Standard SQL Queries Can’t Get the Job Done.
A Correlation database is a database management system (DBMS) that is data model independent and designed to efficiently handle unplanned, ad hoc queries in an analytical system environment. Queries are performed using natural language instead of SQL.
Article | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 |

Joseph Foley.
Comparison of Data Warehousing DBMS Platforms.
An analysis of the advantages and disadvantages of relational, columnar and correlation databases for complex and demanding analytics environments.
Article | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009 |

Tutorials and Lecture Notes

Michael Dirolf,10gen
MongoDB Lecture Notes (DOWNLOAD .PDF)
MongoDB: Open source, high performance,document oriented database.
Lecture | Intermediate | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 20 April 2010

Databeans
Fully object oriented persistence for java version 2.0
Tutorial | Basic | English | DOWNLOAD (PDF) | 2009

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