Object-Oriented Database Management Systems Revisited

This report reviews the state of the art of Object-Oriented Database Management Systems (OODBMS). The objective of this report is to provide the reader with an understanding of the issues relevant to OODBMS technology and to describe where commercial products stand on these issues. A further objective is to describe the current state of commercial OODBMS in regard to a set of expected facilities for databases in general and object-oriented databases in particular. It is expected that this report will be used as the first step in an evaluation aimed at selecting an OODBMS for use in a given application development effort.