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In this chapter, we relax another one of the fundamental assumptions we made in Chapter 1—namely that the system implements the relational data model. Relational databases have proven to be very successful in supporting business data processing applications. However, there are many applications for which relational systems may not be appropriate. Examples include XML data management, computer-aided design (CAD), office information systems (OIS), document management systems, and multimedia information systems. For these applications, different data models and languages are more suitable. Object database management systems (object DBMSs) are better candidates for the development of some of these applications due to the following characteristics[Özsu et al., 1994b]:
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Özsu, M.T., Valduriez, P. (2011). Distributed Object Database Management. In: Principles of Distributed Database Systems, Third Edition. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-8834-8_15
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