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Object-oriented databases

What if a database stored objects, complete with their links and behaviour, instead of rows in tables? Object-oriented databases do exactly that, and their ideas now live on inside many mainstream systems.

In this topic

  • From tables to objects
  • Links instead of matching values
  • Worked example: one person's films, two ways
  • Transient and persistent objects
  • Worked example: persistence in Python
  • One paradigm from end to end
  • Hiding complex data inside objects
  • Objects that answer questions
  • Object databases today
  • Common mistakes to avoid
  • Key takeaways

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