db4o, The Basics

From the author :

(...)With this post I start a little series about db4o, an object database. Why? Because I think object databases are a quite unknown technology. Normally when developers talk about databases they mean a relational database. Yes, relational databases are awesome and well known. But there are lots of alternatives out there! Sadly, lots of developer never even look at alternatives. For example graph-databases like Neo4J, document-database like CouchDB or a object-database like db4o.(...)


http://www.gamlor.info/wordpress/2009/09/db4o-the-basics/