Database Systems

CHAPTER 23

Object Databases

The previous decade has witnessed the advancement of several so-called object database management systems (ODBMS) and universal database management systems (UDBMS). This Chapter discusses such systems under the following subheadings:

• Introduction
• Overview of Object Oriented Database Management Systems
• Challenges to Object Oriented Database Management Systems
• Hybrid Approaches
• Summary and Concluding Remarks

23.1 Introduction

Object Technology (OT) has been dominating the software engineering industry in recent times. For better or worse, there has been a heightened interest and indulgence in object-oriented methodologies ...