Comparison of managing IFC data using object-oriented and relational databases
Zhiliang Ma · Journal of Tsinghua University(Science and Technology) · 2012
A method was developed to compare the performance of object-oriented and relational databases to choose the right database to efficiently manage industry foundation classes(IFC) data.This method analyzes three types of information represented by IFC entities as simple information,combined information and complex information.Versant object database 8 and SQL Server 2005 were used to evaluate IFC data management.The comparison shows that for the management of thousands of IFC objects,an object-oriented database is more efficient.This result is of significant value for promoting the application of IFC standards.