Object-Relational Databases. Some Theoretical Promises and Few Practical Achievements

Marin Fotache and Cătălin Strîmbei

Abstract:

This paper tries to point out some of the promises, quarrels, achievements, and perspectives of this 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.

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