Review - Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil.
Sophie Cluet:
Review - Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil.
ACM SIGMOD Digital Review 1: (1999) BibTeX
Review
This article recounts the database object adventure
and offers some predictions concerning the future of
objects in database systems.
Although (i) it does not include the most up-to-date
buzzwords (it was written in 1996) and (ii) I don't
like its conclusions (OODB are relegated to second class citizen
in the database market), I still recommend it: the historical
part is accurate and the predictions rather convincing
(too bad for my favorites).
Now, I could give you a summary of this 10 pages paper, but then why
would you read it? So, let me simply conclude this review
by profiling the likely reader interested in this paper.
- an engineer who wants to impress his/her boss by making the
right choice now
- a graduate student looking for a good subject in database
- a professor in need of some material for an introductory course on databases
- a database researcher who has been sick for the last ten years
and wants to know what he/she has been missing
- a smart database researcher who wants to make sure he/she understood
what has been happening
Copyright © 1999 by the author(s).
Review published with permission.
References
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- Michael J. Carey, David J. DeWitt:
Of Objects and Databases: A Decade of Turmoil.
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