Lecture Database design, application development and administration - Chapter 18: Object database management systems

In this chapter, you will learn about extensions to DBMSs for objects, combinations of complex data and operations. This chapter provides a broad introduction to object DBMSs. You will first learn about the business reasons to extend database technology. This chapter discusses the increasing use of complex data and the mismatch between DBMSs and programming languages as the driving forces behind object database technology.