Object databases are also suited for applications that are not necessarily based on an object model, but use a large number of in-memory indexes that are difficult to store in a relational database.

When relational databases took hold in the mid 1980s, pointer and table-based infrastructures made the retrieval and manipulation of disparate records much easier.

Object databases vie with relational databases in the market and each have strengths and weaknesses. Relational databases store information in tables, the virtual equivalent of a spreadsheet.

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The evolving landscape of NoSQL databases and NoSQL database management systems (NoSQL DBMS) has everything to do with Big Data analytics.

PostgreSQL is an object-relational database system that, according to their website, runs on all major operating systems, including Linux, Unix, OS X, Solaris, Tru64, and Windows.

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Object databases (which for marketing purposes have been re-badged as "post-relational databases"), have no such XML compatibility issues.