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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

Examples

Benchmarks can be a useful mechanism for comparing functionality and performance, but even more useful is to examine actual users, especially those in production. Towards this end, we'll briefly review several users, in a variety of industries and application domains. For each we explain what the application is, what benefits it receives from the ODBMS, and what experience it has had in production. Example domains include: Manufacturing (Cimskil, Exxon), Scientific and Research (CERN, Sloan Digital Sky Survey), Telecom Real-Time and Network Management (Iridium, QUALCOMM, Marconi, COM21, Nortel, Sprint), Financial Services (Citibank, Decision•ism), Document and Process Management (Payback Systems, Daikin, Intraspect), Process Control (Fisher-Rosemount, SEH, NEC), Data Warehousing (CUNA Mutual), Military/Transportation/Environmental Logistics and Control (BBN, Kintetsu, Siemens), and Energy (American Meter, Exxon). These also cover Asia, North America, and Europe, as well as a variety of different end user industries, and different technology applications, different and mixed platforms (Unix, Linux and Windows), a variety of different and mixed languages (Java, C++, Smalltalk), chosen from more than 150,000 deployed user licenses.