Title :
Mermaid—A front-end to distributed heterogeneous databases
Author :
Templeton, Marjorie ; Brill, David ; Dao, Son K. ; Lund, Eric ; Ward, Patricia ; Chen, Arbee L P ; MacGregor, Robert
Author_Institution :
UNISYS Corporation, Santa Monica, CA
fDate :
5/1/1987 12:00:00 AM
Abstract :
Mermaid is a system that allows the user of multiple databases stored under various relational DBMSs running on different machines to manipulate the data using a common language, either ARIEL or SQL. It makes the complexity of this distributed, heterogeneous data processing transparent to the user. In this paper, we describe the architecture, system control, user interface, language and schema translation, query optimization, and network operation of the Mermaid system. Future research issues are also addressed.
Keywords :
Control systems; Data models; Data processing; Data security; Database systems; Distributed databases; Operating systems; Power system security; Query processing; Relational databases;
Journal_Title :
Proceedings of the IEEE
DOI :
10.1109/PROC.1987.13782
