Relational databases are table oriented: visualizing data as a collection of one-dimensional tables, which that can be manipulated through by relational calculus.

Java Persistence API: A look deeper The Java Persistence API is a lightweight, POJO-based framework for object-relational mapping. The mapping between Java objects and a relational database is ...

PostgreSQL implementation of document-oriented NoSQL datastore adopted under permissive MIT license The Linux Foundation on ...

When relational databases took hold in the mid 1980s, pointer and table-based infrastructures made the retrieval and manipulation of disparate records much easier.

The buy will give the Fremont, Calif., company a JDO tool that will be used as a basis for multiple data-access products that connect applications to both object and relational databases. JDO ...

Selivanov doesn’t have anything personal against the relational database management system. In fact, he appreciates what RDBMSs have done for us, in particular the mathematical completeness of SQL and ...

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Skipping an object-to-relational mapping step as well as the ability to react with quick updates were major factors in choosing Matisse. "Matisse is the database underpinning the entire system," he ...

TierDeveloper 5.1 is an object-to-relational mapping and code-generation tool that maps objects to relational tables, generates .Net components for VB.Net and C#, and enables embedding of SQL ...