object-oriented database

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Noun1.object-oriented database - a database in which the operations carried out on information items (data objects) are considered part of their definition
hypertext - machine-readable text that is not sequential but is organized so that related items of information are connected; "Let me introduce the word hypertext to mean a body of written or pictorial material interconnected in such a complex way that it could not conveniently be presented or represented on paper"--Ted Nelson
computer database, electronic database, electronic information service, on-line database - (computer science) a database that can be accessed by computers
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Since the journal is based on an object-oriented database it is possible to add arbitrary attributes to objects stored in that database, i.e.
Links to the future
So efficiency and reliability make static type-checking preferable in object-oriented database systems.
Type-Checking OQL Queries In the ODMG Type Systems
1996] active rule system is unique among those surveyed here in building upon a deductive object-oriented database (another such system is described in Dinn et al.
Active Database Systems
An object-oriented database (ODB) [Beeri 1990], according to the tradition of database technology, contains two fundamental sorts of information: data, represented by the object's state (the database extent), and metadata, implemented in the database schema (the database intent) [Khoshafian and Abnous 1990].
An Efficient Method for Checking Object-Oriented Database Schema Correctness
On the design of object-oriented databases. In Proceedings of the Conference on Entity-Relationships (Karlsruhe, Germany), 389-405.
Object Normal Forms and Dependency Constraints for Object-Oriented Schemata
Using object-oriented database technology to model the real world.
Data models in geographic information systems
Object-oriented database software -- stores and retrieves even more complex data such as graphics, audio, and video clips.
Databases as Information Management Tools
With object-oriented database systems an object base(4) can be viewed as a form of data/knowledge base whose intensional component is complex, constitutes the semantic reflection of its extensional component, and is expected to be the subject of information requests.
Unraveling the semantics of conceptual schemas
The Envision system consists of specially-developed components: a query server, an object-oriented database management system, a presentation server, and the Envision client.
Envision: a user-centered database of computer science literature
The Mjolner Beta System includes an object-oriented database [11], in which our hypermedia structures are stored.
Design issues for a Dexter-based hypermedia system
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