Repositories and object oriented databases
- 1 March 1998
- journal article
- Published by Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) in ACM SIGMOD Record
- Vol. 27 (1) , 88-96
- https://doi.org/10.1145/273244.273271
Abstract
A repository is a shared database of information about engineered artifacts. An object-oriented repository has many of the same features as an object-oriented database: properties, relationships, and versioning. However, the two technologies are different for two reasons. First, a repository system has built-in information models, which are database schemas or object models that cover both generic and tool-specific kinds of information. Second, the features of a repository are often more functional than similar features supported by object-oriented databases. This paper is primarily a survey of the latter features, drawing attention to capabilities that distinguish repositories from object-oriented databases.Keywords
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