ODBMS.org publishes panel discusson

ODBMS.ORG  NEWS RELEASE 6/2/2008 

Panel Discussion "ODBMS: Quo Vadis?" Published

ODBMS.ORG, a vendor-independent non-profit group of high-profile
software experts lead by Prof. Roberto Zicari, today announced a
new panel discussion "Object Database Systems: Quo vadis?" with
responses from the ODBMS.ORG experts Mike Card, Jim Paterson, and
Kazimierz Subieta, on their views on on some critical questions
related to Object Databases:

€ 	 Where are Object Database Systems going?
€ 	 Are Relational database systems becoming Object Databases?
€ 	 Do we need a standard for Object Databases?
€ 	 Why ODMG did not succeed?

A major part of the discussion mirrored the discourse at the
ICOODB 2008 conference regarding standardization of ODBMS
technology. "Good standards can provide interoperability and
portability. Bad standards can stifle innovation." says Jim
Paterson, Lecturer in the School of Computing and Mathematical
Sciences at Glasgow Caledonian University.  

Mike Card from Syracuse Research Corporation (SRC), who chairs
the ODBT group in OMG to advance object database standardization,
expresses the view that "The APIs for creating, opening,
deleting, and synchronizing/replicating databases as well as the
native query APIs should be standardized to allow application portability."

Kazimierz Subieta from the Polish-Japanese Institute of
Information Technology adds that "the object database standard is
the biggest gap in promoting object-oriented technologies."

The panel also looks into the issue if LINQ, which provides
native language data access, is a suitable standard for ODBMS.
The panelists agree that LINQ is a promising technology.  "LINQ
looks like it has a lot of promise in this area. We (the Object
Database Technology Working Group in OMG) are currently
evaluating LINQ vs. the stack-based query language (SBQL) to see
how these technologies compare for handling complex queries."
says Mike Card.

The complete panel transcript is available for free download at:
http://www.odbms.org/experts.html#article19


About ODBMS.ORG
ODBMS.ORG (www.odbms.org) is a vendor-independent, not-for-profit
educational program on object database technology and the
integration between object-oriented programming and databases.
Designed by Prof. Roberto Zicari of Frankfurt University, the
program's goal is to promote and further the use of object
databases - by offering free resources for students, faculty and
researchers at universities and research centers, as well as for
JAVA and .NET developers in the commercial and the open source
world. Content is provided by a panel of internationally
recognized experts, who share research articles and teaching
materials with the community via the organization's Web portal.

Contact ODBMS.ORG at editor @ odbms.org.

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