* Domain Model Flexibility - Shape domain models in a most suitable way, responding to needs and challenges as they come using built-in indexing capabilities * Perfect Audit Trail - Every event and its cause are serialized so that every action and its outcome can be traced * Functionality Mapping - Designating commands and events provides developers with a clear, succinct "one-page view" of available functionality * Strongly Typed Schema - All commands and events are compactly serialized according to their typing information and schema migration capabilities are included * Tooling - The Java implementation comes with JMX introspection and management primitives built-in. Additional application tooling is available, such as a GraphQL adaptor

* persistent typed data management * client/server model * transactional services * expressive object model * inheritance * integrity constraints * methods * triggers * query language * application programming interfaces * a definition language based on the ODMG Object Definition Language (ODL) * a query language based on the ODMG Object Query Language (OQL) * database objects are directly mapped within the virtual memory space * object memory copy are reduced to the minimum * caching policy is implemented * programs are able to deal with hundreds of millions of objects without loss of performance