期刊名称：Research Journal of Economics, Business and ICT
印刷版ISSN：2045-3345
电子版ISSN：2047-7848
出版年度：2012
卷号：5
出版社：English Time Schools & Overseas Education
摘要：Business, manufacturing and other kinds of databases have been implemented by the relational database technology. The transition from one generation to the next has always been necessitated by the everincreasing complexity of database applications and the cost of implementing, maintaining, and extending these applications. Accordingly, whatever the application areas of the relational database technology are, the basic shortcomings and weaknesses of this discipline are valid. On the other hand, the objectoriented database technology forms a good basis for all kinds of database applications, e.g., CAD / CAM / CASE / CIM systems, knowledge management systems, and others, due to its flexible, effective, and extensible data modeling and application formalism. In this study, two popular database technologies, the relational and objectoriented, are briefly introduced and their general characteristics are discussed. The purpose of this study is to pointout and compare the important features of relational and objectoriented databases, for the sake of understanding the pros and cons of these technologies before implementing them.
