GOOM: A graph object oriented database model

In an effort to design and develop a suitable platform for the next generation information systems, a new Graph Object Oriented database Model (GOOM) has been proposed in this paper. The proposed model leads to the design and development of a Graph Query Language, which acts as the interface to interact with GOOM. We have introduced the concept of encapsulating homogeneous entities into semantic group while permitting the declaration of relationships amongst different semantic groups from various user-defined views. The proposed model aims at extracting the positive features of both Object and Relational data models besides providing a structured graphic representation.