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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
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Organization: Hewlett Packard, Cupertino
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In  on '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