On Object-Oriented Database Systems

✍ Scribed by Klaus R. Dittrich (auth.), Klaus R. Dittrich, Umeshwar Dayal, Alejandro P. Buchmann (eds.)

• Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
• Year: 1991
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 410
• Series: Topics in Information Systems
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Object-oriented database systems have been approached with mainly two major intentions in mind, namely to better support new application areas including CAD/CAM, office automation, knowledge engineering, and to overcome the `impendance mismatch' between data models and programming languages. This volume gives a comprehensive overwiew of developments in this flourishing area of current database research. Data model and language aspects, interface and database design issues, architectural and implementation questions are covered. Although based on a series of workshops, the contents of this book has been carefully edited to reflect the current state of international research in object oriented database design and implementation.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xi
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Object-Oriented Database Systems: The Notion and the Issues....Pages 3-10
Front Matter....Pages 11-11
An Overview of PDM: An Object-Oriented Data Model....Pages 13-27
Views, Objects, and Databases....Pages 29-43
Inheritance Issues in Computer-Aided Design Databases....Pages 45-52
Object Management in Postgres using Procedures....Pages 53-64
Handling Constraints and their Exceptions: An Attached Constraint Handler for Object-Oriented CAD Databases....Pages 65-83
Front Matter....Pages 85-85
Object-Oriented GALILEO....Pages 87-103
An Object-Oriented Database for Trellis....Pages 105-119
Godal: An Object-Centered Database Language....Pages 121-133
Front Matter....Pages 135-135
PROTEUS: The DBMS User Interface as an Object....Pages 137-156
An Object-Oriented Interface to a Relational Database....Pages 157-167
Front Matter....Pages 169-169
A Shared Object Hierarchy....Pages 171-188
Towards an Object-Oriented Data Model for a Mechanical CAD Database System....Pages 189-205
A Data Modeling Methodology for the Design and Implementation of Information Systems....Pages 207-227
Front Matter....Pages 229-229
The Architecture of the EXODUS Extensible DBMS....Pages 231-256
Persistent Memory: A Storage System for Object-Oriented Databases....Pages 257-273
ObServer: An Object Server for an Object-Oriented Database System....Pages 275-290
Generating Object-Oriented Database Systems with the Data Model Compiler....Pages 291-314
Design Issues for Object-Oriented Database Systems....Pages 315-319
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
Associative Access Support in GemStone....Pages 323-339
Front Matter....Pages 321-321
The Efficient Support of Functionally-Defined Data in Cactis....Pages 341-355
Managing Complex Objects in the Darmstadt Database Kernel System....Pages 357-375
Front Matter....Pages 377-377
Summary....Pages 379-383
Back Matter....Pages 385-422

✦ Subjects

Database Management; Data Storage Representation; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters