Patent ID: 6182082
Filing Date: 2001-01-30
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A system for managing an object-oriented database in response to a request issued from an application program, comprising:a database for storing therein both of a class having a definition of an object and an object generated from said class;means for generating a class and a plurality of attributes based on class definition information and attribute definition information, which are designated by the application program;means for generating an object to store an attribute value corresponding to said class definition information in accordance with said class definition information in response to any one of such facts that the request issued from the application program is related to a normal attribute, and to a clustering attribute, said object generating means including a storage control unit for storing the attribute value related to said normal attribute into one storage unit area of said database and for storing the attribute value related to said clustering attribute into another storage unit area of said database; andmeans for acquiring information corresponding to an identifier of an attribute required by the application program from any one of said one storage unit area and said another storage unit area, and for storing the acquired information into a memory area.