Contents

• • Introduction
  • The Architecture
  • The Storage Manager Subsystem
    • Raw Data Management
    • Memory Mapped Architecture
    • Transactional Services
    • The Recovery System
    • B-Tree and Hash Indexes
    • Multi-Volume Database Management
  • The Object Model
    • Class Structure
    • Type Polymorphism
    • The Collection Type
    • Relationships
    • Constraints
  • The Object Definition Language
  • The Object Query Language
  • The C++ Binding
    • Transient and Persistent Objects
  • The Java Binding
  • Conclusion