Achievements and Weaknesses of Object-Oriented Databases.
Sikha S. Bagui · The Journal of Object Technology · 2003
Object-oriented database systems began developing in the mid-80's out of a necessity to meet the requirements of applications beyond the data processing applications which were [are] served by relational database systems.This paper serves as an overview on the achievements of object-oriented database technology so far, and also discusses the weaknesses that have to be yet resolved by the object-oriented database community before object-oriented database technology can become as widespread as relational databases.