With Objectivity/Smalltalk, Smalltalk applications benefit from high-performance storage, sharing, retrieval and update of database objects.

Smalltalk database applications in an Objectivity/DB environment can easily share access to information managed by C++ and Java programs. The data can even be reported on – and managed by – widely available SQL and ODBC tools.

Smalltalk classes are made persistent through reachability; transitive persistence assures that all instances referenced by persistent classes are also made persistent. Class definitions are provided for easily creating object database schema and for automatic object evolution as persistent classes are changed. Support is provided for standard object browsers and garbage collection.

You can use standard Smalltalk with Cincom's VisualWorks development environment and easily add object persistence where desired. Popular tools such as Object Technology International's ENVY/Developer and Cincom's VisualWave are also supported.

Objectivity/DB's architecture provides for the physical and logical clustering of data to maximize the efficiency of network and disk I/O. Intelligent buffering and relationship traversals further increase the performance. Objectivity/Smalltalk applications can take full advantage of Objectivity/DB's ability to manage multi-terabyte databases distributed over large numbers of networked servers. You won't run out of power with Objectivity.