ODABA is a Terminology-Oriented Database Management System (TODBMS) based on standards for object-oriented databases (ODMG 2003). Besides requirements for object-oriented databases, which belong to the P2 database family (see “Unified Database Theory”), ODABA also supports several P3 database features (hierarchical set relations). Claiming to be a P3 database, ODABA can be considered as high level intelligent database, which provides a lot of support for application developers and database designers.
ODABA does not yet fully support P3 database family requirements. Full P3 support including aggregation schema support is planned for ODABA version 13 in January 2013.
In order to support complex schema development, application design, programing and software and database maintenance, ODABA provides a family of rapid application development tools for documentation, design and implementation.
With ODABA Script Interface (OSI), ODABA provides a powerful object-oriented script language, which allows traversing along database instances like accessing hierarchical structures in memory. Syntactical similarities with C++/JAVA allow understanding and learning OSI easily. The combination of weak-typed collection and virtual functions (function overload) offer a new dimension of flexible implementation. Besides simple database applications, OSI may also be used in order to implement event handlers (triggers) for database and GUI (application) events. Thus, OSI became a universal implementation language, which may be used in all implementation areas.
The latest version of the ODABA has been released on Friday, November 2nd, 2012. Essential changes and extensions have been made for OShell and the OSI script debugger. The debugger provides features similar to GDB, i.e. allows changing stack frames, jumping over frame borders, reloading functions after being changed etc. In connection with extensive bug-fixing and internal improvements, OSI became one of the most powerful database script languages, which also supports developing GUI applications (including debugging GUI applications with OSI debugger).
The complete list of bugs fixed is available in change and release logs or in notifications delivered with ODABA development databases. ODABA can be downloaded for free and is licensed as GPL software.
Read the full release announcement:
http://www.odaba.com/content/tools/announcements/
Download source and binaries:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/odaba/files/