Author: Roberto Zicari

Referential Integrity Is Important For Databases

By Michael Blaha November 17, 2005 Abstract: Referential integrity is a database constraint that ensures that references between data are indeed valid and intact. Referential integrity is a fundamental principle of database theory and arises...

Alagic Sets Stage for Future Virtual Platforms

ODBMS.ORG, the Internet’s most up-to-date educational and research portal on object database technology, has published a paper by expert panel member Suad Alagic on the “Next Generation of Virtual Platforms”, demonstrating that object oriented persistence should...

Contracted Persistent Object Programming

Stephanie Balzer, Swiss Federal Institute of Technology Zurich (ETHZ) This paper introduces a new approach to persistent programming, that is based on orthogonal persistence, but constrained to the object-oriented case. LINK (PDF)

Next Generation of Virtual Platforms

By Suad Alagic, Mark Royer October 28, 2005 Abstract: This paper is addressing three major and quite controversial issues critical for the next generation of virtual platforms for object-oriented languages. The first one is providing...

ODBMS.ORG Expands Panel

After a successful launch on September 15, ODBMS.ORG has added new panel members and contributions to its unique resource portal on object database technology. New Expert Panel members include Prof. Zongmin Ma, Northeastern University...

Agile Techniques for Object Databases

By Scott Ambler September 15, 2005 Abstract: Modern software development processes are evolutionary in nature, but more often than not agile. Agile techniques include refactoring, agile modeling, continual regression testing, configuration management of all development...

ODBMS.ORG Portal Released

High-Profile Experts Help Meet Growing Demand for Free Educational Resources on OO Database Technology SAN FRANCISCO, Calif., Sep. 15, 2005 – ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent, non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto...

NEUStore

Donghui Zhang, Northeastern University Tutorial including download link for NEUStore – a simple Java package for the construction of disk-based, paginated, and buffered indices. DOWNLOAD (PDF)