Before Object Oriented Programming (OOP) programs were written an imperative way, essentially a long list of commands (instructions). In imperative programming, you write your code the way you ...

Today, C++, C#, Java, Visual Basic.NET and Python are popular object-oriented languages. The following compares basic OOP terms with traditional programming. See object-oriented DBMS.

The Object Services Layer provides a more generic approach towards working with data – it uses an Object Query instance to process the data internally and execute your queries.