OdeFS allows objects to be treated and manipulated like files. Standard commands such as rm, cp and mv and tools such as vi and grep can be used to manipulate objects in the database. A beta- test version of OdeFS is available upon request. Ode provides both transparent access for large objects and a file like interface for large objects. The latter can be used to efficiently access and update parts of a large object.
Users can create versions of objects.
Ode will track the relationship between versions and provides facilities for accessing the different versions. User can change data and see the impact of these changes without changing the database. EOS, the storage engine of Ode, is based on a client- server architecture. A file-like interface is also provided for very large objects. Log records contain only after images of updates, thus making logs small.