A CORBA-based approach to design gateways for multidatabase systems

Author

Ambrogio, A. D´ ; Izaeolla, G.

Author_Institution

Lab. for Comput. Sci., Rome Univ., Italy

fYear

1997

fDate

18-20 Jun 1997

Firstpage

49

Lastpage

54

Abstract

A multidatabase system (MDBS) is a system that provides access to data from a collection of database systems (DBSs), called component DBSs, that are heterogeneous and distributed. The integration of the component DBSs into the MDBS is performed by a complex of functions termed a `gateway´. This paper describes the design of a gateway based on the distributed object computing (DOC) approach, and compliant to the CORBA (Common Object Request Broker Architecture) standard. The approach is shown to introduce savings in design complexity and costs. The details of the approach are described in a gateway case study for the integration of a relational DBS into a MDBS

Keywords

distributed databases; internetworking; object-oriented databases; object-oriented methods; relational databases; CORBA-based approach; case study; design complexity; design cost savings; distributed object computing; gateway design; heterogeneous distributed component database systems; multidatabase systems; relational database system; Communication standards; Computer architecture; Computer science; Costs; Data models; Distributed computing; Distributed databases; Hardware; Multimedia databases; Satellite broadcasting;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Enabling Technologies: Infrastructure for Collaborative Enterprises, 1997. Proceedings., Sixth IEEE Workshops on

Conference_Location

Cambridge, MA

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7967-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ENABL.1997.630789

Filename

630789