Category: Expert Articles

A New Renaissance for ODBMSs?

By Rick Cattell, Robert Greene, Leon Guzenda, Luis Ramos, Carl Rosenberger, Roberto Zicari(Editor) August 3, 2009: This is a follow up of the panel discussion, which took place at the ICOODB 09 conference on July 2, 2009 in Zurich....

Object-Oriented Design of Database Stored Procedures

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...

Object Database Systems: Quo Vadis?

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?”...

Java Object Persistence: State of the Union Part II

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...

Java Object Persistence: State of the Union – Part I

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...

Next-Generation Object Database Standardization

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...

Avoiding the Quagmire

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...

OODBMS Architectures Defended

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...