Title :
An overview of Pegasus
Author :
Ahmed, Rafi ; Albert, Joseph ; Du, Weimin ; Kent, William ; Litwin, Witold ; Shan, Ming-Chien
Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
Pegasus is a multidatabase management system. It provides access to multiple, autonomous, heterogeneous, distributed database management systems through a uniform interface by integrating native and various external databases. The external databases can have different data models, query languages, and world-views. The authors present an overview of the Pegasus system and highlight its main features
Keywords :
SQL; distributed databases; HOSQL; Pegasus; data models; distributed database management systems; external databases; multidatabase management system; query languages; uniform interface; world-views; Cities and towns; Data models; Database languages; Database systems; Distributed databases; Iris; Laboratories; Milling machines; Object oriented modeling; Spatial databases;
Conference_Titel :
Research Issues in Data Engineering, 1993: Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, 1993. Proceedings RIDE-IMS '93., Third International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Vienna
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-3710-2
DOI :
10.1109/RIDE.1993.281908
