Like it or not, data is an integral part of any application, even cool object-oriented ones. Everything stops at the persistence layer, where Java developers traditionally have had to write complex ...

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db4o is an open-source, object-oriented database from db4objects. It is embeddable, in the sense that the entire db4o engine is supplied as a single library that links into your application. Versions ...

Java developers are often required to provide a simple persistence mechanism for their Java classes. Many of the problems related to that task fall into this great gray area where property-file-based ...

Cédric Raguenaud, Martin R. Pullan, Mark F. Watson, Jessie B. Kennedy, Mark F. Newman and Peter J. Barclay Types of databases commonly used for handling taxonomic data are compared. It is shown that ...

Businesses are constantly seeking innovative ways to enhance efficiency, streamline processes, and improve system performance. By leveraging a combination of Object-Oriented ABAP and advanced data ...

The Perst open-source project is available as a free download, though a licence must be purchased for commercial or closed-source products. The object-oriented database comes in Java and C# versions.

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 ...

Data modeling tools play an important role in business, representing how data flows through an organization. It’s important for businesses to understand what the best data modeling tools are across ...