You might have seen the recent news reports about the collision between U.S. and Russian communication satellites. The U.S. satellite was one of the Iridium satellites. What wasn’t reported and you probably don’t know is that an object database management system (ODBMS) is an important part of the Iridium system. Even though ODBMSs are a [...]
February 13, 2009
I am now also posting on the Cutter Blog. My initial posting is (The Acronym) SOA is (Perhaps) Dead (at Some Companies); Long Live Services. It is a response to Anne Thomas Manes’ SOA is Dead; Long Live Services on her blog at the Burton Group.
January 9, 2009
The typical definition of an atomic task or process is one that cannot be decomposed further. This is vague and subject to interpretation. The Decomposition Matrix on this site uses a specific definition: A task (for business process diagrams) or a process (for data flow diagrams) is atomic if every input relates to every output [...]
December 3, 2008
My last posting referenced the criteria for a well-formed business process diagram mentioned in Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. I am going to expand on their criteria to create a more comprehensive definition of a well-formed business process diagram. To start, here are three criteria [...]
November 18, 2008
I recently received two new books on business process modeling. Both books looked interesting because they had great titles. As it turns out, one book is great and the other not so good. The not so good book is Business Process Driven SOA using BPMN and BPEL by Matjaz B. Juric and Kapil Pant. There [...]
October 9, 2008
The Design Decomposition Blog is written by Doug Barry.
Dr. Stonebraker has also provided a way for classifying DBMSs based on
performance on complex data. He mentioned this during a question and answer
session at the Object/Relational Summit in Boston in August, 1997. He said,
"My point of view is that if you want to navigate your objects in C++,
object databases do that blindingly fast -- way faster than a relational or an
object-relational engine." (This was before Java became popular.) Listen to
Dr. Stonebraker: Stonebraker.mp3.
Let's look at what it means to navigate objects. The following figure shows a
few instance objects that are part of a database of parents, children, and
addresses. The arrows show the relationships among the instance objects. Moving
from one instance to another along the arrows is navigation. Languages such as
C++ and Java provide ways to navigate among objects. The speed of this
navigation is what Dr. Stonebraker describes as the strength of ODBMSs.
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Object-Oriented Database Design Clearly Explained by Jan L. Harrington Average Customer Review: based on 7 reviews. Customer Review: "Object Oriented Database Design" is a book for beginners and, as far as I have been able to investigate, it is a perfect walkthrough along the background of object structures. Figures, exemples, syntax of codes and clear explanations lead the learner through theory towards practice. Exemples are often very nice.
Learning PHP Data Objects: A Beginner's Guide to PHP Data Objects, Database Connection Abstraction Library for PHP 5 by Dennis Popel Average Customer Review: based on 5 reviews. Customer Review: I like the book's erudite methodology. The methodology of this book is based on the two tenets of sound education: Informing Demonstrating In this books after the information I found lots of exercises, step by step, with plenty of pictures and screen shots that lead me through and demonstrated a process of task. These exercises are f...
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