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Building High-perfomance Object Oriented Databases

• The Problem
• High ingest rates
• High delete/archival rates
• Complex relationships
• Flexibility
• Performance Optimization
• Very Large Cardinalities
• A Solution
• Persistence
• The Hierarchical Solution
• The Relational Solution
• An Object-oriented approach to persistence
• Query/Retrieval
• Query by Attribute
• Query by Traversal
• Cache
• Concurrency
• Schema Control and Data Migration
• Transactions (Commit / Rollback)
• Single, Consistent View of Data
• A Practical Example
• Logical Schema
• Message Class
• Attachments and Relationships
• Sender, Recipients, CC Lists and Addresses
• Physical Data Placement
• Using Databases and Containers for Fast Archival and Deletes
• Using Databases and Containers for Fast Queries
• Using Databases, Containers and Range Lists for Parallel Queries
• Hardware Architecture Design and Sizing
• Objectivity/DB Terminology

Flexibility: Modern software applications require much more flexibility than applications have in the past. In particular, data types may change to reflect an ever-changing application domain, or to reflect an ever-improving understanding of that domain. Similarly, the computing environment may change to take advantage of newer, more cost-effective hardware. The leading database management products fail to meet the new flexibility demands in several ways.

Schema changes and the associated data migration are difficult, especially for large amounts of data. Upgrading hardware is difficult as well and often requires that the original platforms must be replaced – not added to. Rehosting a SQL database can be expensive and time consuming.