Author: Roberto Zicari
“A Matter of Time: Temporal Data Management in DB2 for z/OS”
Cindy Saracco, Matthias Nicola, Lenisha Gandhi, IBM Silicon Valley Lab. LINK (.PDF)
Raima Inc.(embedded database)
Download RDM Embedded (Registration required) Download RDM Server (Registration required)
XML Database Benchmark: “Transaction Processing over XML (TPoX)
TPoX is an application-level XML database benchmark based on a financial application scenario. It is used to evaluate the performance of XML database systems, focusing on XQuery, SQL/XML, XML Storage, XML Indexing, XML Schema...
Open Source Database Benchmark Project (OSDB)
The OSDB project`s aim is to define an object-oriented, database-independent, and system-independent benchmark to enable individuals to analyze the performance of a variety of database and system configurations. The MySQL DBMS plugin is available....
Foundation of Object-Oriented Programming – A Full Day Tutorial
Giuseppe Castagna, Ecole Normale Superieure 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. LINK
Object-Oriented Programming Concepts
Sun, The Java Tutorial A great tutorial to get acquainted with OOP. LINK