Category: Expert Articles
By Michael Blaha, Bill Huth, Peter Cheung October 22, 2008: Object-oriented (OO) software engineering techniques are often used with programming languages, but they also apply to relational databases. OO techniques are not only helpful for...
By Mike Card, Jim Paterson, Kazimierz Subieta, Roberto Zicari(Editor) June 2, 2008: ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, has exclusively published a new panel discussion “Object Database Systems: Quo vadis?”...
By Jose Blakeley, Rick Cattell, William Cook, Robert Greene, Alan Santos, Roberto Zicari (Editor) May 15, 2008: ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, has exclusively published a second sequel to the panel discussion...
By Michael Blaha April 10, 2008 Abstract: In an earlier article on ODBMS.ORG (Referential Integrity Is Important For Databases, 2005) we explained how referential integrity applies to modeling, programming, and databases. Referential integrity is a...
By Mike Keith, Ted Neward, Carl Rosenberger, Craig Russell,Roberto Zicari (Editor) April 1, 2008: ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, has together with InfoQ.com exclusively published the panel discussion “Java...
By Michael Card September 27, 2007 Abstract: Following the dissolution of the Object Data Management Group (ODMG) in 2001, standardization efforts for object databases languished. What has emerged since is a fractured marketplace where each...
By Ted Neward May 21, 2007 Abstract: For close on to two decades, the programming industry has sought answers to the problems of manipulating relational data from within an object-oriented language. The problems of this...
By Robert Greene February 2, 2007 Abstract: It is the intent of this paper to address the issues raised in “OODBMS Architectures Revisited“. The intent of the original article “OODBMS Architectures” was to offer an...
By Adrian Marriott December 6, 2006 Abstract: The purpose of this paper is to explore the analysis offered by Robert Greene in his paper OODBMS Architectures: An examination of implementations, and to correct what the author believes are...
By Robert Greene October 3, 2006 Abstract: The Object Oriented Database Management System (OODBMS) has been in existence now for nearly 2 decades. The major vendors conceived and began implementing them in the late 80’s...