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

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
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