Authors:
Jan Vraný
1
;
Zdeněk Struska
2
and
Vojtěch Merunka
2
Affiliations:
1
Faculty of Electrical Engineering, Czech Technical University in Prague, Czech Republic
;
2
Faculty of Economics and Management, Czech University of Agriculture in Prague, Czech Republic
Keyword(s):
Data normalization, object data model (ODM), relational data model (RDM), first object normal form (1ONF), second object normal form (2ONF), third object normal form (3ONF).
Related
Ontology
Subjects/Areas/Topics:
Databases and Information Systems Integration
;
Enterprise Information Systems
;
Information Engineering Methodologies
;
Information Systems Analysis and Specification
;
Methodologies, Processes and Platforms
;
Model-Driven Software Development
;
Modeling Concepts and Information Integration Tools
;
Modeling Formalisms, Languages and Notations
;
Object-Oriented Database Systems
;
Requirements Analysis And Management
;
Software Engineering
;
Systems Engineering
Abstract:
In the article there is described an overview of current status in the area of formal technique of object database design. It is discussed there, why relational design techniques as normalization, decomposition and synthesis are not able to be easy used in object databases. The article informs with various proposals of object normal forms and it brings own authors evaluation and an example of object normalization.