Start-up db4objects Inc. next week is releasing its object database, db4o, under an open-source format, with the product now available either under the GPL (GNU General Public License) via open-source ...

This post is one of a series that introduces the fundamentals of NOSQL databases, and their role in Big Data Analytics. What is an object-oriented Database? An object oriented database manages objects ...

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Symbian's UIQ platform, also known as Quartz, is an environment tailored for handheld phones equipped with pen input and a quarter-sized VGA (though sometimes smaller) display. Although the primary ...

SANTA CRUZ, Calif. — An open-source object-oriented database that targets embedded applications, db4o, is claiming a significant performance gain and reduced memory consumption in a new release. The ...

Realm is introducing version 1.0 of its Realm Mobile Platform, which uses the company’s object database for synchronizing data on mobile devices. It supports development of “offline first” native ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

The need to persist data created at runtime is as old as computing. And the need to store object-oriented data cropped up when object-oriented programming became pervasive. Currently, most modern, ...

Persistence is one of the greatest challenges for building applications. There are many options for building persistence layers. Data Access Objects (DAO) is a popular design pattern for building the ...