: If Alex created a "Electric Car" class, it would automatically "inherit" everything from the "Car" class without needing a complex set of joined tables.
This story follows Alex, a software developer tired of translating complex code into rigid tables, as they discover the world of Object Databases. The Great Translation Fatigue Fundamentals of Object Databases: Object-Orient...
Alex's mentor, Sarah, pointed to a different path: . Instead of breaking things down, an OODB stores data exactly as it looks in the code. : If Alex created a "Electric Car" class,
: Every object has a unique Object Identifier (OID) that never changes, unlike a primary key that might be tied to a specific column like an ID number. Tools of the Trade Fundamentals of Object Databases: Object-Orient...