Key Object Database Advantages

Using an object database for data storage brings powerful advantages to applications that use complex object models, have high concurrency requirements, and large data sets.

The growing requirements of database applications, e.g., for network management, simulation, transportation, and online gaming, are pushing traditional relational database systems to their limits. Application models are increasingly complex, often hierarchical, and evolve rapidly. Using relational databases for these application domains has proven to be difficult and time consuming because of the need to maintain the so-called object to relational mapping and the inability to achieve acceptable database performance.

Using the Versant Object Database for complex database applications provides powerful advantages to developers creating C++, Java or .NET object models, have high concurrency requirements, and large data sets:

• Versant Object Database (Java, C++, .NET)
  
• FastObjects .NET Object Database (.NET)

Why Versant's object database solutions instead of traditional RDBMS?

Versant helps building and evolving the database at the speed of the business. In addi­tion, Versant’s performance and scalability advantages with complex application models provide a more efficient production environment, often supporting 10x more concurrent users and 10x faster data access speed compared to relational databases.

More performance, lower hardware costs and shorter development time – Versant saves time, money and gives you a true and measurable competitive advantage.

Complex (Inter-) Relationships

If there are a lot of many-to-many relationships, tree structures or network (graph) structures then Versant's object database solutions will handle those relationships much faster than a relational database.

No Mapping Layer

It is difficult, time consuming, expensive in development, and expensive at run time, to map the objects into a relational database and performance can suffer. Versant's object database solutions store objects as objects. The Versant Object Database is designed to store many-to-many, tree and network relationships as named bi-directional associations without having the need for JOIN tables. Hence, Versant saves development time, and objects are stored and retrieved significantly faster. Modern O/R mapping tools may simplify many mapping problems, however they don’t provide seamless data distribution or the performance of Versant.