Title :
Implementing a distributed garbage collector for OO databases
Author :
Bielak, Richard ; Sarkis, Jean-Pierre
Author_Institution :
CAL FP, New York, NY, USA
Abstract :
We describe the implementation of a distributed garbage collector for a group of object oriented databases. We start by considering the issues that led to the choice of algorithm and why garbage collection in a database is more difficult than in memory. We describe the algorithm and how it was implemented in Eiffel, using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and the Versant ODBMS
Keywords :
distributed algorithms; object-oriented databases; object-oriented languages; parallel programming; storage management; virtual machines; Eiffel; OO databases; PVM; Parallel Virtual Machine; Versant ODBMS; distributed garbage collector; garbage collection; object oriented databases; Automatic programming; Distributed databases; Java; Memory management; Object oriented databases; Object oriented programming; Parallel programming; Partitioning algorithms; Programming profession; Virtual machining;
Conference_Titel :
Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems, 1999. TOOLS 30 Proceedings
Conference_Location :
Santa Barbara, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-0278-4
DOI :
10.1109/TOOLS.1999.787534
