what is the difference between object oriented and object related database software.?

Question

Can u catagories these softwares "Oracle,Db,Access,Objectivity" and other database softwares.Which one is object oriented and which is object related database software.

Answer 1

There are a couple of old manifestos from the early 1990s that could be worth
reading. Links are here:

http://www.btinternet.com/~xmldataba...resources.html

Market share is easy. OODBs are a few % of RDB/ORDB. I've been involved with the
technology for over 10 years (as a researcher, consultant, publisher) and it has
never grown beyond a few %. My interest is applied-research, so I like looking at
some of the business issues associated with technology adoption. You might find some
of my slides/presentations useful:

http://www.btinternet.com/~xmldataba...lications.html

These days (during the course of my work, networking at conferences, etc.), I rarely
find anyone interested in using OODBs. Many of the vendors have also re-positioned
their offerings (e.g. XML, J2EE caching). It is also hard to find any analysts (e.g.
Gartner) that bother to track the OODB market anymore.

http://www.dbforums.com/t390906.html



http://www.w3.org/Conferences/WWW4/Papers2/282/

Answer 2

simple answer, object relational db are normal db's where data is stored related to programmatic objects. object oriented databases supports the use of objects. like XML-Databases (just replace columns by rows and you get the point)