Even the label object/relational mo

Even the label object/relational model (O/RDM) is not quite accurate, because the relational database model's domain is not an object model structure.

However, there are already quite a few O/R products -- also known as Universal Database Servers -- on the market. Therefore, Date concedes that we are probably stuck with the O/R label.

In fact, Date believes that "an O/R system is in everyone's future." More precisely, Date argues that a true O/R system would be "nothing more nor less than a true relational system -- which is to say, a system that supports the relational model, with all that such support entails.