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

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Marin Fotache and Cătălin Strîmbei

 

Al.I. Cuza University of Iaşi, Romania

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Fotache, M. &  , C. S. (2009). Object-Relational Databases: An Area with Some Theoretical Promises and Few Practical Achievements. Communications of the IBIMA, 2009 (2009), 9

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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