This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that results from our attempts to blend ...

Object-Oriented databases have been around since the dawn of object-oriented programming but relational databases are by far the dominant database architecture in use today (and for years to come).

When you think of databases usually MySQL or Oracle or even Microsoft SQL Server come to mind. Yet, object oriented databases have the potential to cut down coding nuts and bolts and speed up app ...

Oracle's object-relational version of the Oracle7 DBMS. Object-relational databases store multimedia data as well as the traditional row and column tables of relational data. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...

The database has been with us for years and will be for many more ? but what will it look like in the future? Danny Bradbury finds out The database has been the supporting strut of the mid-range ...

Oracle's long-awaited dip into the murky waters of object-relational databases came about this week when the database giant took the wraps off Oracle 8 at its user conference in San Francisco. With ...