Choices in database workstation-server architecture

Author

Chu, Iris S. ; Winslett, Marianne S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci. Dept., Illinois Univ., Urbana, IL, USA

fYear

1993

fDate

1-5 Nov 1993

Firstpage

298

Lastpage

305

Abstract

The workstation-server model is emerging as the standard computing environment for engineering and scientific applications. Most object-oriented database systems choose either the object-server architecture, in which individual objects are passed between the server and the workstation, or the page-server architecture, in which a disk page is the unit of transport between the server and the workstation. In this paper we extend the work of DeWitt et al. (1990) to consider the advantages and disadvantages of an implementation in which the application has direct access to pages, rather than to objects

Keywords

client-server systems; engineering computing; engineering workstations; file servers; natural sciences computing; object-oriented databases; paged storage; software engineering; software performance evaluation; software selection; workstations; architecture choices; computing environment; database workstation-server architecture; disk page; engineering applications; object-oriented database systems; object-server architecture; page-server architecture; scientific applications; Application software; Computer architecture; Computer science; Database systems; Iris; Memory architecture; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Relational databases; Workstations;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Computer Software and Applications Conference, 1993. COMPSAC 93. Proceedings., Seventeenth Annual International

Conference_Location

Phoenix, AZ

Print_ISBN

0-8186-4440-0

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/CMPSAC.1993.404179

Filename

404179