Editing Object database (section)

{{Short description|Database presenting data as objects}}
[[File:Object-Oriented Model.svg|thumb|320px|Example of an object-oriented model<ref name="USDT01">[http://knowledge.fhwa.dot.gov/tam/aashto.nsf/All+Documents/4825476B2B5C687285256B1F00544258/$FILE/DIGloss.pdf Data Integration Glossary] {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20090320001015/http://knowledge.fhwa.dot.gov/tam/aashto.nsf/All+Documents/4825476B2B5C687285256B1F00544258/$FILE/DIGloss.pdf |date=March 20, 2009 }}, U.S. Department of Transportation, August 2001.</ref>]]

An '''object database''' or '''object-oriented database'''  is a [[database management system]] in which information is represented in the form of [[Object (computer science)|objects]] as used in [[object-oriented programming]]. Object databases are different from [[relational database]]s which are table-oriented. A third type, [[object–relational database]]s, is a hybrid of both approaches.
Object databases have been considered since the early 1980s.<ref>[http://odbms.org/Introduction/history.aspx ODBMS.ORG :: Object Database (ODBMS) | Object-Oriented Database (OODBMS) | Free Resource Portal]. ODBMS (2013-08-31). Retrieved on 2013-09-18. {{webarchive |url=https://web.archive.org/web/20140306143204/http://odbms.org/Introduction/history.aspx |date=March 6, 2014 }}</ref>