ODABA

ODABA is a terminology-oriented database management system. To meet the concept and terms as being used in the everyday work in the database and in the final product - that is something customers really liked to have, and ODABA is a technology supporting this goal. It is not surprising: Using proper terminology avoids mistakes, increases development efficiency and product quality is growing. Terminology-oriented database systems are a conceptual extension of object-oriented database systems, i.e. one may refer to most of the standards and technologies known from UML and object-oriented technologies.

ODABA provides a powerful interface (C++, .NET) and an ODABA Script Interface (OSI), a C++/JAVA like scripting language, which provide easy access to the database. For getting more information about the power of ODABA, you may read ODABA Invitation, the story about ODABA, which is also available in German.

• Technical features

  Technical details and features are described in Technical Overview. There, conceptual extensions, general database concepts and special features are described.

• Documentation

  Documentation is an essential part in ODABA development, and, documentation is something, that is never finished. We provide documentation on many different places. Thus, you will find e.g. function descriptions in source code, in the documentation Web tree, in different document types (.doc., .pdf, .odt) and in on-line help.

• ODABA Development Tools

  ODABA provides a number of tools that support fast and comfortable application development and design. Besides GUI design and programming tools, there GUI and command line tools available for browsing the data base and debugging scripts. Since you get all sources and resources for development tools, you may customize ODABA tools for your specific requirements.

• License models

  As terminology-oriented database management system, ODABA is one of the most powerful OODBMS. Nevertheless, ODABA is available for free (GPL) on MS Windows, LINUX and SUN Solaris platforms. The free version is, of course, without any warranty. Support might be provided on the base of an additional maintenance and development contract.