Object-oriented databases play nicely with object-oriented programming languages. This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data ...

Object databases are also suited for applications that are not necessarily based on an object model, but use a large number of in-memory indexes that are difficult to store in a relational database.

We will discuss Object-Relational Mapping Patterns over a few articles. It will give an insight into issues concerning persistence layer design, domain layer —persistence layer relationships. In ...

The mapping between Java objects and a relational database is achieved with the help of Java language metadata annotations and/or XML deployment descriptors (usually XML descriptors are optional).

Oracle responded by aggressively promoting Oracle 8.1 as the world’s first “object-relational database." In the middle of the last decade, open source databases and, in particular, MySQL seemed poised ...

If you're familiar with relational databases, this analogy might help: A ContactDatabase corresponds to a single-table database, ... To implement this illustration, we'll be calling on a particularly ...

Its purchase of JDO Genie, a mapping product that also includes a set of design-time tools, will allow it to help enterprises cope with the flurry of standards being introduced into the data ...

The data are stored in a traditional relational database or in an object database if the data have a complex structure. See O-R mapping and object database.

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PostgreSQL is an object-relational database system that, according to their website, runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, Unix, OS X, Solaris, Tru64, and Windows.