Objects and Databases : 9783642160912 : 3642160913 : 27 Sep 2010 : AccordingtoFrancoisBancillonandWonKim[SIGMODRECORD,Vol.19,No. 4, December 1990], object-oriented databases started in around 1983. Twen- seven years later this publication contains the proceedings of the Third Inter- tional Conference on Object-Oriented Databases (ICOODB 2010). Two questions arise from this ? why only the third, and what is of interest in the ?eld of object-oriented databases in 2010? The ?rst question is easy ? in the 1980s and 1990s there were a number of conferences supporting the c- munity ? the International Workshops on Persistent Object Systems started by Malcolm Atkinson and Ron Morrison, the EDBT series, and the International Workshop on Database Programming Languages. These database-oriented c- ferences complimented other OO conferences including OOPSLA and ECOOP, but towards the end of the last century they dwindled in popularity and ev- tually died out. In 2008 the First International Confe