Title :
Dynamic spatial query language: a customized query language for object-oriented database systems
Author :
Luk, W.S. ; Choi, Amelia
Author_Institution :
Sch. of Comput. Sci., Simon Fraser Univ., Burnaby, BC, Canada
Abstract :
A design is presented of a customized query language for manipulating geometric objects in a three-dimensional space, called dynamic spatial query language (DSQL), with which an end user retrieves, updates, and deletes spatial and nonspatial information about the objects without any knowledge of their exact spatial locations. DSQL, as an application-oriented query language, is built on top of an object-oriented database system, and operates on a database view that captures spatial characteristics of the objects and relationships among the objects. The authors also describe a bilevel data modeling approach as a methodology for design and implementation application-oriented query languages
Keywords :
object-oriented databases; query languages; DSQL; application-oriented query language; customized query language; database view; dynamic spatial query language; end user; geometric objects; object-oriented database systems; spatial characteristics; spatial locations; Application software; Data models; Database languages; Database systems; Design methodology; Information retrieval; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Spatial databases;
Conference_Titel :
Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1991. COMPSAC '91., Proceedings of the Fifteenth Annual International
Conference_Location :
Tokyo
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-2152-4
DOI :
10.1109/CMPSAC.1991.170198