An object-oriented prototype for a geophysical database

Author

Ramanathan, Chandrashekar ; Koduri, Sridhar

Author_Institution

Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA

fYear

1995

fDate

12-14 Mar 1995

Firstpage

170

Lastpage

174

Abstract

Database management systems (DBMSs) are being used in a wide variety of domains to handle many types of data. Scientific data pose a special challenge to DBMSs due to their volume and complex nature. The object-oriented model has many additional capabilities over the relational model that enables the database designer to capture the semantics of the data better. The paper describes the process of re-engineering a part of a relational database to an object-oriented database. The transformation of the relational schema to an object-oriented schema, the implementation of the new schema using an object-oriented DBMS, and a user interface for the new database are described

Keywords

computational linguistics; data structures; geophysics; geophysics computing; object-oriented databases; relational databases; scientific information systems; systems analysis; systems re-engineering; user interfaces; database designer; database management systems; geophysical database; object-oriented database; object-oriented model; object-oriented prototype; re-engineering; relational database; relational model; scientific data; semantics; user interface; Casting; Data models; Database systems; Information retrieval; Navigation; Numerical models; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Relational databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

System Theory, 1995., Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Southeastern Symposium on

Conference_Location

Starkville, MS

ISSN

0094-2898

Print_ISBN

0-8186-6985-3

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SSST.1995.390596

Filename

390596