Author:
Dietrich, Suzanne Wagner.
Imprint:San Rafael, Ca : Morgan and Claypool , c2011.
Descriptionxxi, 151 p. : ill ; 24 cm.
Note:Part of Synthesis digital library of engineering and computer science.
Note:"Portions of this book are based on the book An advanced course in database systems: beyond relational databases, published by Pearson Education Inc., 2005."
Note:Introduction to object databases -- Object-oriented databases -- Object-relational databases -- Mapping object-oriented conceptual models to the relational data model.
Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (p.141-144) and index.
Note:This monograph presents the fundamentals of object databases, with a specific focus on conceptual modeling of object database designs. After an introduction to the fundamental concepts of object-oriented data, the monograph provides a review of object-oriented conceptual modeling techniques using side-by-side Enhanced Entity Relationship diagrams and Unified Modeling Language conceptual class diagrams that feature class hierarchies with specialization constraints and object associations.