As some new computer applications, such as computer-aided design, multimedia systems, and knowledge-based systems, require more complex data structures, the traditional database system seems to be unable to support these new requirements. A recently developed database technology, object-oriented database, provides a solution to these problems.The purpose of this thesis is to investigate what is object-oriented database, especially in its internal organization such as object persistency. Two object-oriented database systems, EXODUS and ODE, are discussed in detail. In addition, a comparison between the relational databases and object-oriented databases is made. / Department of Computer Science

Thesis (M.A.)--University of Melbourne, Dept. of Criminology, 2002. / Typescript (photocopy). Includes bibliographical references (leaves 124-131).

Report (M.I.S.)--Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, 1993. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 88). Also available via the Internet.

Thesis (M. U. D.)--University of Hong Kong, 2008. / Includes bibliographical references (leaf 118) Also available in print.

M.Sc. / In a society that is becoming increasingly reliant on information, it is necessary for information to be stored efficiently and safely. Database technology is used to store large chunks of information efficiently, while database security is concerned with storing information securely. More complex computer applications (CAD/CAM, multimedia and Groupware) led to then development of object-oriented programming, with object-oriented databases following shortly after. Object-oriented databases store the data of object-oriented systems efficiently and permanently. They provide a rich set of semantic structures that allows them to be used in applications where other database models are simply inadequate. In federations consisting of several interconnected databases, security plays a vital role in the proper management of information. This work describes a Secure Distributed Object Environment (SDOE) infrastructure. It is designed to be implementation-oriented, on which strict theoretic prototypes such as SPOP (Selfprotecting Object Prototype) can be built. SPOP is a prototype of a secure object-oriented database and is based on the SPO database model of Olivier. To describe federated database architectures (used by SDOE and SPOP), it is necessary to understand the architecture of federated database systems. Reference architectures for federated database systems are discussed first and a comparison is drawn between two prominent reference architectures. We proposed a generalised reference architecture based on these two architectures. created in order to make the use of object-oriented programming in a distributed environment as problem free as possible. A marshal buffer structure will be discussed thirdly. The latter structure is used to contain procedure parameters during an RPC (Remote Procedure Call). Fourthly, the communications infrastructure necessary to support higher-level services is discussed. The infrastructure is implemented in Linux (a UNIX variant), and this approach has provided several interesting challenges. The fifth discussion will deal with the requirements for a name service. A name service is necessary if objects were to be used transparently (without reference to their current locations in the federation).

International Telemetering Conference Proceedings / October 30-November 02, 1995 / Riviera Hotel, Las Vegas, Nevada / This paper illustrates a Windows computer application program which uses the object-oriented paradigm as a basis. The objective of the application program is to control the setup of equipment involved in routing a telemetry signal. This design uses abstract classes as high level building blocks from which site specific classes are derived. It is the next generation to the software portion of a system described by Eugene L. Law. The object-oriented design method, as presented by Grady Booch in his book Object-Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications, is the design tool.

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