# Object Relational Database Management System

DevFeed: [Object Relational Database Management System](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/object-relational-database-management-system-34586.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://tapoueh.org/blog/2018/03/object-relational-database-management-system/>)

Author: Dimitri Fontaine PostgreSQL Major Contributor; Author

Published: 2018-03-22T16:40:39Z

Content type: article

Language: en

Sources: [Dimitri Fontaine](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/dimitri-fontaine.md>)

Topics: [PostgreSQL](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/postgresql.md>), [Database](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/database.md>), [Polymorphism](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/polymorphism.md>)

Tags: [database](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/database.md>), [object-oriented](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/object-oriented.md>), [open-source](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/open-source.md>), [ordbms](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ordbms.md>), [postgresql](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/postgresql.md>), [programming](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/programming.md>)

## AI overview

This article explains why PostgreSQL is described as an object-relational database management system. It introduces object-oriented programming and discusses object-orientation models, including message passing, in relation to database systems and programming languages.

## Source excerpt

PostgreSQL is the world's most advanced open source database, and per the PostgreSQL Wikipedia page it is an object-relational database management system (ORDBMS) with an emphasis on extensibility and standards compliance. In this article, we try to understand why would PostgreSQL be named an object-relational thing. What is Object Oriented Programming and how does that apply to a database system?