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Article: Object-oriented databases the next wave in complex data management.
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- Manufacturing Business Technology
- Article date:
- June 1, 2007
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'Manufacturers want to connect their factory-floor operations and their production systems up to the top of the enterprise, into their upper business systems,' says Dick Slansky, senior analyst, product life-cycle management (PLM) & discrete industries for Dedham, Mass.-based ARC Advisory Group . 'The challenge is capturing that data in its different formats.'
Relational databases offer one approach to complex data management, but they are single server-oriented and constrained by tables. While their strength lies in ad hoc queries, relational databases don't remember past queries. 'It's always an atomic operation,' says Todd Stavish, SE ...