Bringing Object-Relational Technology to The Mainstream

摘要

Over the last few years Oracle has evolved its flagship relational database system into an Object-Relational system by adding an extensible type system, object storage, an object caches, and extensible query and indexing framework, support for multimedia datatypes, a server-based scalable Java virtual machine, as well as enhancing its SQL DDL and DML language. These extensions were done with the practical goal of bringing objects to mainstream use.