A database that is managed by an object-oriented database management system (ODBMS). Object databases are closely aligned with a particular object-oriented programming language and enable the data ...

This made hierarchical structures inappropriate for operations such as data mining, where the object is to find relationships between disparate records. When relational databases took hold in the ...

An organization founded in 1991 to promote object database standards. Disbanded in 2001 after completing its objectives, the ODMG added programming extensions to C++ and Smalltalk for accessing ...