Re: Re: OODB

In article <1992May30.134818.15429@usage.csd.unsw.OZ.AU>, bjtong@spectrum.cs.unsw.oz.au (Banchong Harangsri) writes: |> Dear Will, |> |> >Is "Introduction to Object-Oriented Databases" any good? What level is |> >the book written for? I'm interested in learning more about about OODBs |> >but haven't really seen a good book on it. Can you give a quick review? |> |> >Thanx! |> >Will |> >(uunet!la4gen!villy) |> |> The author of this book is very well-known in this area(OODB) and he |> has done the research on the database area for several year from the |> relational database until OODB. |> I'm sorry that I'm only a beginner in this area; however, my |> feeling about this book is that this book is based on the author's |> project ORION, which is a good prototype model of OODBs since we |> haven't had a standard of OODB as yet. |> I think this book is very good book because it covers everything that |> we need to know beginning from the data model, schema modification, |> a proposed model of queries and a corresponding query language and |> so on. Also, this book is a bit hard to read since one who wants to read |> this book should have some basic background of a relational database for |> example. |> A book that I would like to recommend is the book by Hughes, John G. |> named "Object-oriented databases" from Prentice Hall, 1991. By the way, |> not so many books on this area have been published as I know. |> Finally, thank you very much for replying to me. |> |> Best regards, |> banchong |> |> P.S. I'm soory that I have already sent you a reply mail but this mail |> returned back to me since the address doesn't exist or something wrong. |> I therefore decide to post this mail into the news. |> A upcoming review of Kim's book will be published in the OOPS Messinger this summer. I am the author of this review. I prefer not to post the review to the net but will provide postscript copies upon request. -- ******************************************************************************* Bob Baynes Department Of Computer Science rbb@cs.brown.edu Box 1910, 115 Waterman Street (401)863-7684 Brown University Providence, RI 02912 *******************************************************************************