odbms

best open source ODBMS for java

Could you advise the best open source ODMBS (object oriented database management system) for Java application? I understand that usually there is no one definite answer for such questions. So the main points I look for are: good documentation/ support / community reliability performance UPDATE: I see db4o has a long history, the b...

How to design many-to-many relationships in an object database?

I thought it was about time to have a look at OO databases and decided to use db4o for my next little project - a small library. Consider the following objects: Book, Category. A Book can be in 0-n categories and a Category can be applied to 0-m Books. My first thought is to have a joining object such as BookCatecory but after a bit o...

Is there a pure object database for PHP?

I'm interested in knowing if there is a pure object oriented database for PHP. Something similar to zodb for Python. I'm not really looking for an object-relational mapper. So no active record clones... ...

What is the Best Database Choice for a Single User .NET Winforms Application

I'm writing a new .Net 3.5 Winforms single user application and I'm not sure which database I should use. The database consists of about 30 tables and maximum rows in a table will not exceed 50,000. The database should be password protected so the client user cannot view the structure or modify data manually. I'd rather prevent further i...