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A repository is a shared database of information about engineered artifacts. An object-oriented repository has many of the same features as an object-oriented database: properties, relationships, and versioning. However, the two technologies are different for two reasons. First, a repository system has built-in information models, which are database schemas or object models that cover both generic and tool-specific kinds of information. Second, the features of a repository are often more functional than similar features supported by object-oriented databases. The paper is primarily a survey of the latter features, drawing attention to capabilities that distinguish repositories from object-oriented databases.
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Bernstein, P.A. (1997). Repositories and Object Oriented Databases. In: Dittrich, K.R., Geppert, A. (eds) Datenbanksysteme in Büro, Technik und Wissenschaft. Informatik aktuell. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-60730-1_3
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