An overview of the Iris object-oriented DBMS

Author

Fishman, D.H.

Author_Institution

Hewlett-Packard Labs., Palo Alto, CA, USA

fYear

1988

fDate

Feb. 29 1988-March 3 1988

Firstpage

177

Lastpage

180

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Compcon Spring '88. Thirty-Third IEEE Computer Society International Conference, Digest of Papers

Conference_Location

San Francisco, CA, USA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-0828-5

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPCON.1988.4854

Filename

4854