An object database (also object-oriented database management system) is a database management system in which information is represented in the form of objects as used in object-oriented programming. Object databases are different from relational databases and belong together to the broader database management system.
Object databases have been considered since the early 1980s and 1990s. Object databases' main usage is in object oriented areas.
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