Path: utzoo!utgpu!water!watmath!clyde!bellcore!faline!thumper!ulysses!andante!mit-eddie!ll-xn!ames!pasteur!ucbvax!hplabs!hpda!hpcuhb!hpsmtc1!donovan From: donovan@hpsmtc1.UUCP Newsgroups: comp.databases Subject: Re: Object-oriented DBMS Systems Message-ID: <11410002@hpsmtc1.HP.COM> Date: 11 Jul 88 21:20:58 GMT References: <26724@bbn.COM> Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino Lines: 30 Inon 'Object-Orinted DBMS Systems' writes : >I am looking for a few good review articles on object-oriented database >management software. I am particularly interested in learning about working >oodbms systems (as opposed to prototype or planned), availability, performance, >and ease of extensibility. With the current interest in applying database >systems to biological domains (e.g. strain databases, sequence databases, >etc...), I am interested in studying how object-oriented approaches can be >applied to the biological sciences. If anyone could point me to some good There are several OODBMS which are currently being developed by various vendors. They include (but not limited) : a. IRIS of Hewlett-Packard b. ORION of MMC c. GemStone of Servio Logic There was an special review for OODBMS in ACM Transactions on Office Information Systems, Vol. 5, No. 1, January 1987. This special issue covered some of the most advanced OODBMS research effort at the current moment. Aside from the above information, I am curious why your particular biological application requires an OODBMS to store the data. Why does the conventional Relational DBMS fail to meet your requirement. Is it because that your biological data are unstructured. I will be interested to know more about your requirement if possible. Donovan Hsieh Software Development Technology Lab HewLett-Packard, Cupertino California