ObjectStore Relationships

August 1997 / Eval / What's in Store for the Web / ObjectStore Relationships

ObjectStore supports direct two-way links between object types: Declare such relationships in C++ with special macros, and referential integrity among related objects is maintained. The benefit is speed. With no linking table or join operation, as with SQL, ObjectStore encodes relationships directly to quickly ret rieve clusters of linked items no matter how large the database grows. Relationships are available to C++ applications, but not yet for the Java interface.

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