CS 4448 - Fall 1998
Object-Oriented Programming and Design
Talk 3.1
by
Paul Kaliszewski

Jasmine: An object oriented database

The company develops, licenses and supports more than 500 integrated products that include enterprise computing and information management, application development, financial and manufacturing applications.
Computer Associates has over 11,000 people in 160 offices in 43 countries and had revenue of $4.7 billion in fiscal year 1998.

OO database management system
Comes with class libraries for creating and managing data, including bitmaps, animation, audio and full-motion video
Provides access to relational data sources such as Oracle, Infomix and SQL server

Supports third party applications such as, e-commerce and customer support applications, email, and specific industries like health services and financial institutions
Supports legacy and relational databases
Technical support gets good reviews

Improvement on speed for storing an intranet or Internet application, or complicated queries (watching the object tree build may be faster than a traditional relational database query)
Well suited for OO envirionments like JAVA - full OO language should have a full OO database
Supports NT and Unix
Has Java, C, Active X and HTML programming interfaces
Gateways to relational databases
Client/Server development tool included
Price
Ease of use - drag and drop development

Loses the advantage of the relational model - mathematical foundation. This makes the relational model a better choice for data warehousing, where users need to combine data in a very predictable manner
Not going to replace relational model anytime soon
Still work to be done in demonstrating benefits of mapping object oriented applications to OODBMS, as opposed to a relational DBMS
No built in security or management tools
No built in SQL or ODBC support
Only TCP/IP supported
Jade development tool suited for novices
Speed

Incredible Card Corp. - wide repository of information on children, like school, medical, and contact data. Info used by hospitals to treat children in medical emergencies - in the form of a swipe card.
Toyato uses it for their web page creation
Electronic Data Systems Corp. has built an application for managers to share marketing data and to keep account revenues, meeting minutes and staffing info, browser viewable.

Supported on Solaris Unix and NT for servers with support on NT and 95 clients. HP-UX, AIX, and Digital Unix support to follow next year.
Price starts at $1295 for Workgroup Edition on single processor with 25 users. $8000 for Enterprise Edition on single processor Windows NT system with unlimited user license.