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Subject: Re: relational vs object-oriented
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Date: 17 Feb 89 05:44:00 GMT
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Written 10:33 am  Feb 15, 1989 by wilson@carcoar.Stanford.EDU:
>I may have missed the info I'm looking for, since I just started reading
>this group, but could somebody point me to a bozo-level introduction
>to OODB's? 

Unfortunately I don't know of one.  Looking throught the articles I have,
you might check out the following:

	Zdonik, Stanley and Peter Wegner, "Language and Methodology for 
	Object-Oriented Database Environments," Proceedings of the 19th 
	Annual Hawaii International Conference on Systems Sciences, 
	January, 1986.

For a comparison of OODBs and RDBs, try

	Smith, Karen E. and Stanley B. Zdonik, "Intermedia: A Case Study
	of the Differences Between Relational and Object-Oriented Database 
	Systems,"  Proceedings of OOPSLA '87, pp. 452-465.

I only have a reference to the first, but the second is an okay comparison of 
an RDBMS and an OODBMS.  I have a lot more OODBMS-related articles, althought 
most of them are written from the configuration management standpoint (my 
research area).  If there is sufficient interest, I'll post them.

Hal Render
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
render@m.cs.uiuc.edu 
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