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OMEN — An Object-Oriented Database Management System for Non-Standard Database Applications

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Object-oriented Database Management Systems (ooDBMS) gain a lot of attention in the database research area, because they offer much promising facilities to support non-standard database applications like CAD/CAM, office automation, multimedia databases or data-intensive knowledge bases. Conventional database technology (i.e., relational or network) is not well-suited in these fields, because of their poor structural and behavioral modeling capabilities.

Object-oriented databases bring database functionality like persistence, transactions, recovery or con-currency to object-oriented systems, so that object-oriented modeling capabilities can be used to fulfill the requirements of non-standard database applications.

This paper presents concepts and implementation of an ooDBMS prototype, called OMEN (Object-Oriented Database Management System) which offers a C+ +-database extension for object-oriented database programming. The whole system is embedded in an interactive, graphical user interface management, based on the standard OSF/Motif for window management systems.

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  1. Institut für Statistik und Informatik, Universität Wien, Vienna, Austria

    A. Min Tjoa

  2. Institut für Informatik, Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, Linz, Austria

    Roland Wagner

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Schukat, H., Schmid, F.J. (1990). OMEN — An Object-Oriented Database Management System for Non-Standard Database Applications. In: Tjoa, A.M., Wagner, R. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. Springer, Vienna. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-7091-7553-8_39

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