Alex's mentor, Sarah, pointed to a different path: . Instead of breaking things down, an OODB stores data exactly as it looks in the code.
: The database can handle a "Vehicle" list that contains cars, trucks, and bikes, treating each correctly when asked to "calculate maintenance". Fundamentals of Object Databases: Object-Orient...
Alex sat staring at a screen filled with "Object-Relational Mapping" (ORM) errors. In the code, Alex had a beautiful, complex "Car" object with nested parts—engines, wheels, and a history of service records. But the database was a relational one, insisting that this single car be chopped up and scattered across ten different tables. Alex's mentor, Sarah, pointed to a different path: