Title :
Enjoy FRDM - play with a schema-flexible RDBMS
Author :
Voigt, Hannes ; Damme, Patrick ; Lehner, Wolfgang
Author_Institution :
Database Technol. Group, Tech. Univ. Dresden, Dresden, Germany
Abstract :
Relational database management systems build on the closed world assumption requiring upfront modeling of a usually stable schema. However, a growing number of today´s database applications are characterized by self-descriptive data. The schema of self-descriptive data is very dynamic and prone to frequent changes; a situation which is always troublesome to handle in relational systems. This demo presents the relational database management system FRDM. With flexible relational tables FRDM greatly simplifies the management of self-descriptive data in a relational database system. Self-descriptive data can reside directly next to traditionally modeled data and both can be queried together using SQL. This demo presents the various features of FRDM and provides first-hand experience of the newly gained freedom in relational database systems.
Keywords :
SQL; relational databases; SQL; relational database management systems; relational tables FRDM; schema-flexible RDBMS; self-descriptive data; upfront modeling; Apertures; Cameras; Catalogs; Data models; Relational databases; Standards;
Conference_Titel :
Data Engineering (ICDE), 2015 IEEE 31st International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Seoul
DOI :
10.1109/ICDE.2015.7113401