PPT Slide
The Next Generation of Database Design
- Introduction
- Relational database technology is widely deployed and used in contemporary information system shops.
- One new technology is slowly emerging that could ultimately change the landscape dramatically – object database management systems.
- The heir apparent to relational DBMSs, object database management systems store true objects, that is, encapsulated data and all of the processes that can act on that data.
- Because relational database management systems are so widely used, we don’t expect this change to happen quickly.
- It is expected that these vendors will either build object technology into their existing relational DBMSs, or they will create new, object DBMSs and provide for the transition between relational and object models.