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Table of contents:

Dynamic Containers™: The Key To Superior Performance

• Introduction
• Objectivity/DB Database Architecture
• Typical Data Access and Usage
• Basic Approaches to Utilizing Containers
• Data Model Abstraction
• Data Acquisition Pattern
• Leveraging Containers
  

Deployment Examples

• The COM21 Solution
• The Coherent Networks Solution
• Space Telescope Institute
• Conclusion

Leveraging Containers: Since containers are basic objects in Objectivity/DB, you can subclass from them. This means that you can add attributes to containers that will give you tremendous flexibility. Examples include:

• Linked lists of containers
• Trees or networks of containers
• Multidimensional pointers in containers
• Containers with attributes relating to the objects in them

Since we can combine data structures with containers, we can design solutions that are extremely elegant and powerful as we will demonstrate below.