When it comes to providing reliable, flexible, and efficient object persistence for software systems, today's designers and architects are faced with many choices. From the technological perspective, ...

Cédric Raguenaud, Martin R. Pullan, Mark F. Watson, Jessie B. Kennedy, Mark F. Newman and Peter J. Barclay Types of databases commonly used for handling taxonomic data are compared. It is shown that ...

A programming language structure wherein the data and their associated processing ("methods") are defined as self-contained entities called "objects." Becoming popular in the early 1990s and the norm ...

Because any database that does not support the SQL language is, by definition, a "NoSQL" database, some very different databases coexist under the NoSQL banner. Massively scalable data stores like ...