Author_Institution :
Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA
Abstract :
The Iris database management system, a research prototype of a next-generation DBMS (database management system) is presented. Iris is intended to meet the needs of new and emerging database applications such as office information and knowledge-based systems, engineering test and measurement, and hardware and software design. In addition to providing for permanence of data, controlled sharing, backup, and recovery, Iris will also provide a number of needed capabilities that include rich data-modeling constructs, uniform access to specialized storage subsystems and to foreign DBMSs, novel data types (images, voice, text, vectors, matrices), prolonged transactions, direct database support for inference, and version control. Iris will also provide sharing of objects across applications and programming languages.<>
Keywords :
data structures; database management systems; knowledge engineering; Iris object-oriented DBMS; backup; controlled sharing; data types; database management system; engineering test; images; inference; knowledge-based systems; matrices; office information; programming languages; prolonged transactions; recovery; rich data-modeling constructs; specialized storage subsystems; text; uniform access; vectors; version control; voice; Application software; Data engineering; Database systems; Design engineering; Image storage; Iris; Knowledge based systems; Object oriented databases; Prototypes; Software prototyping;
