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 ...

A tale of dueling open-source projects for object-relational mapping may be brewing within Eclipse, with similar proposals floated by Versant Corp. and Oracle Corp. Versant plans to announce on ...

A database management system (DBMS) that provides both relational and object database management capabilities. See universal server. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR PERSONAL USE ONLY. All other reproduction ...

AI is changing the way we think about databases. You can’t have reliable AI agents without reliable data infrastructure.

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) packaged with the Java SE edition that makes it possible to standardize and simplify the process of connecting Java ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern, ...

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).

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 ...

db4o is an open-source, object-oriented database from db4objects. It is embeddable, in the sense that the entire db4o engine is supplied as a single library that links into your application. Versions ...

Relational databases -- along with object extensions built in by most major suppliers -- remain the staple technology of the corporate development world. And many expert observers say it will remain ...