The document discusses object database systems and their advantages over relational database management systems (RDBMS). It notes problems with representing real-world entities in RDBMSs and describes how object-oriented and object-relational database models address these issues better by allowing for inheritance, complex data types, and encapsulation of both data and behavior. The key advantages of object database systems include more closely modeling real-world entities and supporting reuse through inheritance. Object-relational database systems combine object and relational approaches for increased flexibility.