Achievements and weaknesses of object-oriented databases

Abstract

Object-oriented database systems began developing in the mid-80's out of a necessity to meet the requirements of applications beyond the data processing applications which were [are] served by relational database systems. This paper serves as an overview on the achievements of object-oriented database technology so far, and also discusses the weaknesses that have to be yet resolved by the object-oriented database community before object-oriented database technology can become as widespread as relational databases.