Stefan Edlich is professor of software engineering at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. The focus of his research includes enterprise applications, object databases, and mobile applications. The results of his research have produced many books on open source, Web frameworks, J2EE, and db4o. Stefan is organizing the object database conference ICOODB.org 2008.
db4o, an open source object database system with broad industry
applicability, belongs to a popular database management systems that has
close to 2 million downloads to date. Here we'll illustrate the features and
application areas of such a database and compare db4o against relational
DBMS/object relational (OR) mappers.
It seems as if object databases are enjoying a rebirth. After the disastrous
but probably quite purifying hype of the '90s, many providers now offer
sophisticated products. Besides db4o, the products by Intersystems,
Objectivity, Gemstone, and Versant deserve t... (more)
Stefan Edlich is professor of software engineering at the Technical University of Applied Sciences in Berlin. The focus of his research includes enterprise applications, object databases, and mobile applications. The results of his research have produced many books on open source, Web frameworks, J2EE, and db4o. Stefan is organizing the object database conference ICOODB.org 2008.
Jason Dolinger
Lars Ewe
Stephen Dukker
Irfan Khan
Jeffrey Miller
Nicholas Leck
Dmitry Sotnikov
Eric Baldeschwieler
Chuck Neerdaels
Holly Hagerman
