Relational Databases vs. Object Oriented Databases

Databases are one of the backbone components in the IT world that has enabled
the growth and development of technologies used on the Internet and the World Wide
Web. When you look at the information that is presented on websites, or the data stored
in small spreadsheet applications or Access databases sent from one colleague to another
via e-mail, you are looking at functionality from a database application that was responsible for organizing and transferring that information. A Database is a data store accessed through a query language or Application Programming Interface (API). In this paper I will discuss the main differences found between the most commonly used format of database architecture today, the Relational Database, and the newest methodology to appear on the horizon, the Object Oriented Database, that has the ability to become just as popular in the near future as the relational model has in the present. I’ll point out the characteristics that are apparent in bo...