Database concepts and standards

These articles provide a basic background on concepts and standards for database management systems (DBMS). Many of these concepts apply to all forms of database management systems: relational (RDBMS), object (ODBMS), XML (XDBMS), and others as well as object-relational mapping and XML-mapping products. 

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	Basic concepts for using a DBMS ACID properties Atomicity Consistency Isolation Durability Concurrency control and locking Page locking Cluster locking Class or table locking Object or instance locking
	Database models Object model concepts Data Abstraction Encapsulation Inheritance Relational model concepts Comparing the object and relational models Comparison of object and relational terminology Comparison of object and relational concepts
	DBMS standards SQL-92 JDBC SQLJ SQLJ execution environment Mapping SQL and Java data types SQL:1999 ADO.NET Java Data Objects (JDO) JDO PersistenceManager JDO identity models JDO Query Language (JDOQL) ODMG 3.0 Detailed comparison of ODMG 3.0 and JDO Summary comparison of DBMS standards
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