Fundamentals of Object Databases

Suzanne W. Dietrich is an associate professor in the Applied Computing program within the Divi[1]sion of Mathematical and Natural Sciences at Arizona State University.Her research interests include database query languages, data modeling, and computer science education. Dr. Dietrich’s research has been supported by grants from the National Science Foundation, including the maintenance of materialized views over heterogeneous structured data sources in a distributed environment with events and streams; the integration of declarative, object, and active features for distributed multi[1]tiered applications; and the development of novel approaches to undergraduate database education. She is recognized by the ACM as a Distinguished Educator and is the author of Understanding Relational Database Query Languages (Prentice Hall 2001). Susan D. Urban is a professor in the Department of Computer Science at Texas Tech University. Her research interests include data and process modeling as well asintegrated techniques for event, rule, and transaction processing to address data consistency and active behavior in distributed, data[1]centric applications. Dr. Urban has been the recipient of several grants from the National Science Foundation for her research on constraints, active rule processing in centralized and distributed environments, data consistency issues in service-oriented environments, the use of databases in engineering design, and the development of innovative teaching concepts for database instruction. She has published over 100 refereed papers and book chapters on the results of her research.

• List of Figures.- List of Tables.- Introduction to Object Databases.- Object-Oriented Databases.- Object-Relational Databases.