Title :
Integration of database systems using an object-oriented approach
Author :
Czejdo, Bogdan ; Taylor, Malcolm
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Math. Sci., Loyola Univ., New Orleans, LA, USA
Abstract :
With ever-increasing amounts of data being stored on computers, there is a growing demand for systems that will support convenient access to data that are distributed across multiple databases. The authors describe an object-oriented language which supports the definition and use of partially integrated views of a collection of autonomous database systems. They provide a classification of incompatibilities between autonomous databases, in order to define multi-database classes and messages and the subclass/superclass hierarchy. User queries are expressed in a uniform object-oriented language based on Smalltalk
Keywords :
Smalltalk; distributed databases; object-oriented databases; object-oriented programming; Smalltalk; autonomous database systems; messages; multi-database classes; multiple databases; object-oriented language; partially integrated views; subclass/superclass hierarchy; uniform object-oriented language; Data models; Database languages; Database systems; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Navigation; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Relational databases;
Conference_Titel :
Interoperability in Multidatabase Systems, 1991. IMS '91. Proceedings., First International Workshop on
Conference_Location :
Kyoto
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2205-9
DOI :
10.1109/IMS.1991.153682
