Re: Object Databases, only backup for objects in APP? (WAS) Re: Clean Object Class Design -- What is it?

On 17 Jul 2001, Galen Boyer wrote:

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>
> Is an object database a
> relational database plus support of objects?
>
> --
> Galen Boyer
> It seems to me, I remember every single thing I know.
>
>

There is a nice (but maybe old) paper on ODB vs. RDB here:

http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/misc.dir/

If you want examples of OODBs in use, try the two books I helped put together:

"Succeeding with Object Databases"
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/html.dir/00-book.html

and

"Object Databases in Practice"
http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/html.dir/98-book.html

Links to many other OODB sources (e.g. tutorials) here: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/html.dir/resources.html

I have presented some papers, seminars, tutorials on OODBs over the years. A number of them are free for download here: http://www.soi.city.ac.uk/~akmal/html.dir/publications.html

You may also wish to have a look at Object-Relational Databases and some of the OO features they support. Paul Brown's book may help: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0130194603/

HTH akmal

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