VISUAL: a graphical icon-based query language

Author

Balkir, N.H. ; Sukan, E. ; Ozsoyoglu, G. ; Ozsoyoglu, Z.M.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Eng. & Sci., Case Western Reserve Univ., Cleveland, OH, USA

fYear

1996

fDate

26 Feb-1 Mar 1996

Firstpage

524

Lastpage

533

Abstract

VISUAL is a graphical icon-based query language designed for scientific databases where visualization of the relationships are important for the domain scientist to express queries. Graphical objects are not tied to the underlying formalism; instead, they represent the relationships of the application domain. VISUAL supports relational, nested, and object-oriented models naturally and has formal basis. In addition to set and bag constructs for complex objects, sequences are also supported by the data model. Concepts of external and internal queries are developed as modularization tools. A new parallel/distributed query processing paradigm is presented. VISUAL query processing techniques are also discussed

Keywords

data structures; data visualisation; graphical user interfaces; object-oriented languages; query languages; query processing; scientific information systems; visual languages; VISUAL; application domain; data model; distributed query processing paradigm; graphical icon-based query language; graphical objects; modularization tools; nested model; object-oriented graphical database query language; object-oriented models; query processing techniques; relational model; scientific databases; Data models; Database languages; Design engineering; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Power engineering and energy; Query processing; Shape; Spatial databases; Visual databases;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Data Engineering, 1996. Proceedings of the Twelfth International Conference on

Conference_Location

New Orleans, LA

ISSN

1063-6382

Print_ISBN

0-8186-7240-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ICDE.1996.492203

Filename

492203