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1 A database

The authors follow a pragmatic strategy in considering a priori that an
ODBMS is a kind of DBMS.
Let us first review what this sets as requirements; what, as it feels,
should be preserved from the RDBMS into the final ODBMS.

This will lead us to see how even some of these `traditional' concerns may
have to be reevaluated in the light of the object paradigm.

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Mandatory features for a DBMS

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Traditional issues in the new context

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Distribution architecture

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Clustering

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The query language

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Implementation note