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Data Mapper
=== Data Mapper ===


== Popular Products ==
== Popular Products ==

Revision as of 00:51, 22 October 2007

Topic

Object-relational mapping. Ruby's ActiveRecord is one attempt to allow an object-oriented program to use a relational database. The Crossing Chasms pattern is another. Look up several approaches to mapping relational databases to o-o programs, include hyperlinks to all of them, and explain how they differ. Report on the strengths of various approaches (making sure to credit the authors for their insights)


Object relational mapping

Definition

Need

Approaches

Popular Approaches

Active Record

Limitations

  1. No Foreign Key Support: Although RoR lets you define has_many relationships, it makes no effort to create foreign key constraints in the underlying database to ensure relational integrity.
  2. No Multi-column Primary Key Support: Multi-column primary keys are a staple of relational database schema definition.


Data Mapper

Popular Products

Hibernate

Oslick

References

  1. ORM articles
  2. Active Record was mentioned in this book
  3. A video from RailsEnvy giving a quick and clean introduction to Active Record
  4. A comparison of datamapper and Active Record implementations in Ruby
  5. A blog entry by Dev411 on limitations of Active Record
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