Overview of Object Relational Database Management System (ORDBMS)

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1. What is Object-Relational Database Management System?
2. Comparison to RDBMS

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What is Object-Relational Database Management System?

An object–relational database (ORD), or object–relational database management system (ORDBMS), is a database management system (DBMS) similar to a relational database, but with an object-oriented database model: objects, classes and inheritance are directly supported in database schemas and in the query language. In addition, just as with pure relational systems, it supports extension of the data model with custom data types and methods.

In object–relational databases, the approach is essentially that of relational databases: the data resides in the database and is manipulated collectively with queries in a query language; at the other extreme are OODBMSes in which the database is essentially a persistent object store for software written in an object-oriented programming language, with a programming API for storing and retrieving objects, and little or no specific support for querying.

Comparison to RDBMS

An RDBMS might commonly involve SQL statements such as these:

   CREATE TABLE Customers  (
       Id          CHAR(12)    NOT NULL PRIMARY KEY,
       Surname     VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
       FirstName   VARCHAR(32) NOT NULL,
       DOB         DATE        NOT NULL   # DOB: Date of Birth
    );
    SELECT InitCap(Surname) || ', ' || InitCap(FirstName)
      FROM Customers
     WHERE Month(DOB) = Month(getdate())
       AND Day(DOB) = Day(getdate())

In an object–relational database, one might see something like this, with user-defined data-types and expressions such as BirthDay():

    CREATE TABLE Customers (
      Id           Cust_Id     NOT NULL  PRIMARY KEY,
      Name         PersonName  NOT NULL,
      DOB          DATE        NOT NULL
    );
    SELECT Formal( C.Id )
      FROM Customers C
     WHERE BirthDay ( C.DOB ) = TODAY;

The object–relational model can offer another advantage in that the database can make use of the relationships between data to easily collect related records.

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