Object database: Difference between revisions

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The [[Object Database Management Group]] did come up with a industry standard called ODMG 2.0 but it failed to gain acceptance with the ODBMS vendors mostly opting for proprietary features and extensions instead of attempting to grow the ODBMS pie by standards compliance and competing on implementations.

As an industry, ODBMS are a lost opportunity to revolutionize software development. Instead, there are more solutions out there providing [[object-relational mapping]] abilities than there are ODBMS. There are many [[design patternspattern (computer science)|design pattern]]s for designing object-relational mappings (it is a non-trivial task; see notes to this effect in [[Databasedatabase]]).