Bringing objects to the mainstream

Oracle provides an open type system that is consistent with ANSI SQL3 and provides interoperability of SQL with C/C++, Java and CORBA data models. By providing native support for objects in the database and navigational access to database objects from different host languages, we are reducing the impedance mismatch between the applications and the database. The Oracle server also provides a database extensibility framework that allows a tight integration of domain-specific data and logic with the database server. This database extensibility is achieved in an open, safe and manageable fashion in a network-centric computing architecture.