The document discusses the history and components of the object-oriented database model. It began with the semantic data model developed by Hammer and McLeod in 1981, which became the basis for the object-oriented data model managed through an object-oriented database management system. In this model, both data and relationships are contained within objects. Objects include attributes that describe properties, classes that group similar objects, and methods that represent actions. Classes are organized in a hierarchy and inheritance allows objects to inherit attributes and methods from parent classes. The unified modeling language uses diagrams to graphically represent systems modeled with the object-oriented approach.