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Table of contents:

Object Oriented Database vs Relational Database

• Introduction
• The Wall: Where an RDBMS breaks down
• Programming Time and Cost
• Integrity Loss
• Performance
• Information Model Issues
• Architecture Issues
• Benchmark
• Benchmark Parameters
• Benchmark Execution
• Parts Creation
• Updates
• Deletes
• Selects
• Summary
• Examples
• Cimskil (Manufacturing)
• Exxon (Configuration and FEA)
• CERN (Data Gathering and Analysis)
• Decision•ism (Decision Supportware)
• QUALCOMM (Telecommunications)
• COM21 (Cable Modem)
• Nortel, Sprint (Cell Phone Base Station Management)
• Nousoft (Library Document Management, Web)
• Iridium (Telecommunications)
• BBN (Military Logistics and Control)
• Intraspect (Knowledge Management)
• Fisher-Rosemount (Manufacturing, Process Control)
• A Brief Overview of Our Development
• ODB Selection
• Introduction
• Performance
• Scalability
• Productivity
• Fault Tolerance
• Additional Features and Benefits
• Summary
• Kintetsu (Transportation, Logistics)
• Siemens (Process Control)
• SEH (Semiconductor Manufacturing)
• NEC (Semiconductor Manufacturing)
• American Meter (Process Control)
• Sloan Digital Sky Survey (Geographic Information System)
• LMS (Healthcare, Fetal Monitoring)
• Synthesis (Healthcare, Record Management)
• Daikin (Multi-Media CD-I Authoring)
• How to Avoid the Wall

Object Oriented Database vs Relational Database

Daikin
(Multi-Media CD-I Authoring)

Daikin Industries, Ltd., is the world leading supplier of a complete range of authoring and premastering tools for DVDVideo and DVD-ROM software production. Daikin's U.S. Comtec Laboratories embeds Objectivity/DB in its SCENARIST™ software authoring system. Scenarist, which allows users to develop titles which are fully-compliant with the DVD-Video specification, is used by over 350 facilities worldwide including Sony Corporation and other multimedia service bureaus, game vendors, post-production companies for television programming and movie production. The Scenarist software enables customers to rapidly bring to market reliable DVD titles compatible with any available DVD player.

Distributed Architecture: Objectivity's distributed architecture provides Daikin customers performance and scalability in a distributed environment where the Scenarist user must complete multiple DVD projects simultaneously in a highly productive, distributed environment.

Platform Heterogeneity: Scenarist is available on both the SGI and NT platforms. Because Objectivity/DB runs heterogeneously on more than 16 hardware platforms, Objectivity allows Daikin to meet the demands of the high-end Scenarist customers running large volumes of complex data on both the NT and SGI platforms.

Object Database Transparency: Software authors using Scenarist share assets with Daikin's Multimedia component server environment called Comtec Future Studio which is connected with computer graphics, digital video, audio stations, MPEG decompression/compression mechanism, all of which are then connected to a CD printer or, via gateway, to a remote studio. The embedded Objectivity/DB provides cross-platform object-oriented database capabilities seamlessly _ without any obstruction to the multimedia and printing requirements (both local and remote) of Scenarist. In fact, Objectivity/DB significantly increases performance and seamless workflow productivity.