Questions tagged [object-oriented-database]

ODBMS: a database management system that represents information as objects, like in object-oriented programming

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What is the difference between graph-based databases and object-oriented databases?

What is the difference between graph-based databases (http://neo4j.org/) and object-oriented databases (http://www.db4o.com/)?
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is ObjectDB production ready?

In this benchmark ObjectDB is far the fastest DB: http://www.jpab.org/All/All/All.html But I cannot see any other benchmark results from ObjectDB. Is anyone using ObjectDB? Is it production ready? What are the experiences?
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Why aren't OODBMS as widespread as RDBMS?

Why are relation databases more common than object-oriented databases? If the Object Oriented Programming paradigm is so widespread, shouldn't we see lots of OODBMS? Wouldn't they perform better than the RDBMS+OR/M?
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Object Oriented Database - why most of the companies do not use them

I am pretty new to programming(just finished University). I have been thought in the last 4 years about Object Oriented development and the numerous advantages of this approach. My question is Isn't it easier to use a pure Object Oriented database…
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Full text search(Postgres) Vs Elastic search

Read Query In Posgres, Full text indexing allows documents to be preprocessed and an index saved for later rapid searching. Preprocessing includes: Parsing documents into tokens. Converting tokens into lexemes. Storing preprocessed documents…
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Why have object oriented databases not been successful (yet)?

That's the question. Give only one reason you think why have OODB failed or why many systems nowadays still use relational databases.
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NoSQL / RDBMS hybrid with referential integrity (delete cascade)?

Is there a database out there that gives you the benefit of referential integrity and being able to use a SQL type language for querying, but also lets entities be loosely defined with respect to their data attributes and also the relationships…
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Object Oriented Database Vs object Relational Database

I wonder how Object Oriented data modeling is different from Object Relational data modeling? Is it something like the pluses of both object oriented and relational data modeling were clubbed to achieve object relational data modeling? cheers
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Query language for python objects

I'm looking for a library that lets me run SQL-like queries on python "object databases". With object database I mean a fairly complex structure of python objects and lists in memory. Basically this would be a "reverse ORM" - instead of providing…
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Are Object oriented databases still in use?

Quite a while ago, I heard about Object databases. Cool concept and all. Now, with the event of ORMs everywhere, does anyone still use any of the Object oriented Databases systems? Are they relevant? Are they practical?
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JSON to Javascript Class

I have a http request that gets this Json object from a nosql database: let jsonBody = { birthday : 1997, firstname: 'foo', lastname:'bar' } Then I want to load this information into the Student model: class Student{ …
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List of Python Object Databases

I am looking for an object database for Python (no handmade pickles :D). What are my options (besides the obvious ZODB)?
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How to design many-to-many relationships in an object database?

I thought it was about time to have a look at OO databases and decided to use db4o for my next little project - a small library. Consider the following objects: Book, Category. A Book can be in 0-n categories and a Category can be applied to 0-m…
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Recommend a good db4o viewer

I'm playing around with db4o, and I have the Object Manager viewer thingy for Visual Studio. It seems okay, but not exactly on par with tools like HeidiSQL/SQL Studio/etc., not to mention that it locks the db4o file--I can't use my db4o app and…
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Object database for Ruby on Rails

Is there drop-in replacement for ActiveRecord that uses some sort of Object Store? I am thinking something like Erlang's MNesia would be ideal. Update I've been investigating CouchDB and I think this is the option I am going to go with. It's a…
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