This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

I urge our readers to have a look at the “Vietnam of Computer Science” by Ted Neward, which compares the quagmire of the Vietnam War to the current quagmire that results from our attempts to blend ...

Object-Oriented databases have been around since the dawn of object-oriented programming but relational databases are by far the dominant database architecture in use today (and for years to come).

GraphQL seems to be spreading like wildfire, and there's a reason for that. As REST APIs are proliferating, the promise of accessing them all through a single query language and hub, which is what ...

The Java Persistence API was introduced as part of the Enterprise JavaBeans (EJB) 3.0 specification in Java Platform, Enterprise Edition 5 (Java EE). The Java Persistence API draws on ideas from ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...

Scientists at the Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC) at Stanford University in Menlo Park, Calif., are studying the smallest things to try to make sense of the biggest. Their careful, ...

Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) is an application program interface (API) packaged with the Java SE edition that makes it possible to standardize and simplify the process of connecting Java ...

When XML came along five years ago, promising to rewrite the rules of data management, vendors of relational databases took note, but they didn’t panic. They’d already seen this movie a decade before, ...

Oracle's object-relational version of the Oracle7 DBMS. Object-relational databases store multimedia data as well as the traditional row and column tables of relational data. THIS DEFINITION IS FOR ...