Start-up db4objects Inc. next week is releasing its object database, db4o, under an open-source format, with the product now available either under the GPL (GNU General Public License) via open-source ...

A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data in ...

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SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — An open-source object-oriented database that targets embedded applications, db4o, is claiming a significant performance gain and reduced memory consumption in a new release. The ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern, ...

Database connectivity gives desktop and Web applications much of their value. .NET developers have products and framework objects that can tie a front-end application to SQL Server, MySQL, Sybase, ...