Database Issues

Database requirements of hypermedia systems have received very little attention. Relational Data Base Management Systems (RDBMS) cannot fully address the data handling requirements of hypermedia systems.

• Object-Oriented Data Base Management Systems (OODBMS) have been shown to meet the storage requirements of complex systems such as geographical information systems, multimedia systems etc. We need to investigate the use of OODBMS as storage mechanisms for hypermedia applications.
  
  
• Object-oriented approaches to hypermedia must be investigated. Many features from the areas of object-oriented analysis, design and programming can be extended to the hypertext model. Integrating an object-oriented data model with hypertext can greatly improve the information retrieval process. This can be accomplished by redirecting hypertext functionality from the application level to the database level using object-oriented database systems.