EyeDB 2.8.7

Major Features:

1. Standard OODBMS features:
   • Persistent typed data management
   • Client/server model
   • Transactional services
   • Expressive object model
   • Inheritance
   • Integrity constraints
   • Methods
   • Triggers
   • Query language
   • Application programming interfaces
2. Language orientation:
   • A definition language based on the ODMG Object Definition Language (ODL)
   • A query language based on the ODMG Object Query Language (OQL)
   • A C++ binding
   • A Java binding
3. Genericity and orthogonality of the object model:
   • Inspired by the SmallTalk, LOOPS, Java and ObjVlisp object models (i.e. every class derives from the object class and can be manipulated as an object)
   • Type polymorphism
   • Binary relationships
   • Literal and object types
   • Transient and persistent objects
   • Method and trigger overloading
   • Template-based collections such as set, bag and array
   • Multi-dimensional and variable size dimensional arrays
4. Support for large databases:
   • Databases up to several Tb (tera-bytes)
5. Efficiency:
   • Database objects are directly mapped within the virtual memory space
   • Object memory copy are reduced to the minimum
   • Caching policy is implemented
6. Scalability:
   • Programs are able to deal with hundred of millions of objects without loss of performance

Enhancements:

• Fixed Java bug that made all OQL requests issued from a Java program crash with an exception.
• Added test suites based on examples. make check runs and checks all the examples.