It takes more than storage of programming language objects. Object DBMS’s increase the semantics of the C++ and Java.
Introduction to Object based databases
- Object oriented database systems are alternative to relational database and other database systems.
- In object oriented database, information is represented in the form of objects.
- Object oriented databases are exactly same as object oriented programming languages. If we can combine the features of relational model (transaction, concurrency, recovery) to object oriented databases, the resultant model is called as object oriented database model.
Features of OODBMS
In OODBMS, every entity is considered as object and represented in a table. Similar objects are classified to classes and subclasses and relationship between two object is maintained using concept of inverse reference.
Some of the features of OODBMS are as follows:
1. Complexity
OODBMS has the ability to represent the complex internal structure (of object) with multilevel complexity.
2. Inheritance
Creating a new object from an existing object in such a way that new object inherits all characteristics of an existing object.
3. Encapsulation
It is an data hiding concept in OOPL which binds the data and functions together which can manipulate data and not visible to outside world.
4. Persistency
OODBMS allows to create persistent object (Object remains in memory even after execution). This feature can automatically solve the problem of recovery and concurrency.
Challenges in ORDBMS implementation
1. Storage and accessibility of data
It is possible to define new types with new access to structures with the help of OODBMS. Hence, it is important that the system must store ADT and structured objects efficiently along with the provision of indexed access.
Challenge : Storage of large ADTs and structured objects.
Solution: As large ADTs need special storage, it is possible to store them on different locations on the disk from the tuples that contain them. For e.g. BLOBs (Binary Large Object like images, audio or any multimedia object.)
Use of flexible disk layout mechanisms can solve the storage problem of structured objects.
2. Query Processing
Challenge: Efficient flow of Query Processing and optimization is a difficult task.
Solution: By registering the user defined aggregation function, query processing becomes easier. It requires three implementation steps – initialize, iterate and terminate.
3. Query Optimization
Challenge: New indexes and query processing techniques increase the options for query optimization. But, the challenge is that the optimizer must know to handle and use the query processing functionality properly.
Solution: While constructing a query plan, an optimizer must be familiar to the newly added index structures.
For a given index structure, the optimizer must know:
1. WHERE-clause conditions matched by that index.
2. Cost of fetching a tuple for that index.
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