Lecture Database system concepts - Chapter 9: Object based databases
Lecture Database system concepts - Chapter 9: Object based databases
The object-relational model, described in chapter 9, combines features of the re-lational and object-oriented models. This model provides the rich type system of object-oriented databases, combined with relations as the basis for storage of data. It applies inheritance to relations, not just to types. The object-relational data model provides a smooth migration path from relational databases, which is attractive to relational database vendors.