Object-Relational Databases: An Area with Some Theoretical Promises and Few Practical Achievements

Communications of the IBIMA

Marin Fotache and Cătălin Strîmbei

Al.I. Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania

Volume 2009 (2009), Article ID 470373, Communications of the IBIMA, 9 pages, DOI:

Received date: 27 May 2009; Accepted date: 14 August 2009; Published date: 7 October 2009

Abstract

This paper tries to point out some of the promises, quarrels, achievements, and perspectives of the forced marriage between the relational and object-oriented data models, from both theoretical and implementation perspectives. As practical O-R achievements, the latest SQL standards (SQL:1999-2008) and Oracle implementation are discussed

Keywords: Databases, Object-Relational model, SQL, Oracle, Java

Object-Relational Databases: An Area with Some Theoretical Promises and Few Practical Achievements

Marin Fotache and Cătălin Strîmbei

Al.I. Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania

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