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object database  

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  • An object database is a type of database in which information is modeled as objects, similarly to how the concept of object is used in object-orientated programming. It is expected to use an object-orientated programming language as its language and to organize its information into class hierarchies.

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  • object-oriented database, OODB, object databases

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  • Mankovskii, Serguei, Martin Gogolla, Susan D. Urban, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Susan D. Urban, Suzanne W. Dietrich, Ming-Hsuan Yang, et al. 2009. “Object Data Models.” In Encyclopedia of Database Systems, 1929–35. Boston, MA: Springer US.

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