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Tenacity OODB
Tenacity - The quality of -‘Retaining what is held;
Firmness of hold or purpose; Persistence; Retentiveness ’
Shorter Oxford English Dictionary.
Tenacity is a persistent object database add on for VA Smalltalk. It provides
a simple means of transforming any object within memory into its persistent equivalent.
A Tenacity database consists of a single root directory which contains a range of
dictionaries, or other Collection type objects, containing persistent objects. This
mechanism permits simple or complex database structures to be built using standard
Smalltalk code. In fact, Tenacity requires very few specialised methods for its operation.
Almost every action is carried out largely with standard Smalltalk.
Features
- Smalltalk code interface
- The use of proxies
within complex objects to reduce disk access thus everything that
isn't a Smalltalk primitive will only be retrieved from disk when
needed
- Caching
of objects once accessed - again to reduce disk access to improve
performance
- Database slicing across
multiple partitions and disks to improve performance and increase
capacity
- Transactional support to
ensure data integrity
under multiple access
Tenacity is not intended to replace the
heavyweight OODBMS available but is a quick and easy way to add an
object database to your software to provide a sophisticated persistent
storage model. It is available in two versions:
- A single user database intended to be
distributed with VAST applications that are used in a stand alone
mode
- A multi-user database
View
the Tenacity Manual (HTML)
Download Tenacity
Totally
Objects freeware products come with full source code and have no run-time licence
requirements.
They may be distributed with your own code without
payment.
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