O2 and the ODMG Standard: Do they match?
Suad Alagi · Theory and Practice of Object Systems · 1999
The ODMG Standard is the only existing proposed standard for object-oriented databases. The future of the Standard depends ultimately upon its acceptance by the vendors of object-oriented database management systems. This paper evaluates the level of compliance of a commercial system that played a signicant role in the development of the ODMG Standard and claims ODMG compatibility. A number of thorny issues in the Standard itself are also analyzed. The analysis includes the data model and the definition language, the type system, the model of persistence, the transaction model, the query language, the C++ and Java™ bindings. © 1999 John Wiley & Sons, Inc.