Conferences
European Conference on Object-Oriented Programming, International Conference on Conceptual Modeling (E, International Conference on Deductive and Object-O, International Conference on Extending Database Tec, International Conference on Object Oriented Inform, Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and System, Workshop on Persistent Object Systems (POS)
FAQs, Help, Tutorials and Lectures
Object Data Management, Object-Orientation FAQ, Object-Oriented Databases, ODBMS Application Development Course
Modelling
Mapping Objects to Relational Databases, Storing Objects in a Database, Using Object-Oriented Databases: A Step-By-Step Tu
Products
Vendors, Cetus on Object-Oriented Database Management Syste, Choosing the Right OODB Solution, Construct Server, ConteXt, Eaglehawk StrongBox, eXtremeDB, EyeDB, Generic Object Oriented Database Management System, GigaBASE, Neuralite
Projects and Research
Arcus, GoodStep (General Object-Oriented Database for Sof, LDB, Mood, Shore, VODAK
Cetus
Link collection with FAQs, newsgroups, books, and conferences.
Informix Corporation
Designs, develops, manufactures, markets, and supports database management systems and object-oriented application development tools for delivering information to desktop platforms. (Nasdaq: IFMX).
Object Data Management Group (ODMG)
Industry association for a common OO data standard. Extracts of ODMG 3.0 as well as some explaining articles are online. Note: Standard is partially superceded by JDO.
Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
A collection of links, background, research, requirements, books, newsgroups, and organizations. Includes pointers to the three manifestos.
Object-Oriented Databases versus Object-Relational
Gives a rough definition of relational, object-oriented and object-relational databases and compares these paradigms using criteria such as simplicity of use, scalability and maturity.
ODBMS Articles and Products
Articles on object-oriented database systems architecture and technology, product comparison and selection as well as a small FAQ.
The Object-Oriented Database System Manifesto
Defines the main features and characteristics that a system must have to qualify as an object-oriented database.
Ultima-S: Problems and Decisions
Advantages of a client-server O(R)DBMS versus a mainframe database are shown.
Whatever Happened to Object-Oriented Databases?
Comparison of state and future prospect of object-oriented and relational databases. [PDF file with IEEE Computer version available from same site.]