Modern Database Systems: The Object Model, Interoperability, and Beyond - Hardcover

Kim, Won

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0201590980 ISBN 13: 9780201590982

Publisher: Addison Wesley, 1994

Synopsis

This collection of original contributions by leading database professionals illuminates the technical issues involved in the transition to new database technologies, and in making installed database systems and file systems interoperable. In its survey of emerging database technologies, the book describes two database challenges, and suggests solutions for them. One challenge is to move from current database technologies to a variety of post-relational technologies: object-oriented database systems, systems that accommodate functional extensions, and systems that support temporal, spatial, and multimedia data management. A second challenge is to provide interoperability of database systems and file systems currently installed worldwide. While database vendors now offer gateways allowing relational database systems to interact with non-relational systems, multidatabase systems soon will allow users to access a range of systems in a single, uniform, database language.Modern Database Systems shows how emerging database applications require new and innovative database systems, defining the issues involved, proposing solutions, and suggesting directions fro future research and development. Database designers, developers, and users will find both a comprehensive picture of the most current technologies and a preview of what is to come. 0201590980B04062001

About this title

About the Author

About Won Kim Won Kim is founder and president of UniSQL in Austin, Texas, a developer of database systems and application development tools. Formerly Principle Scientist at MCC and director of MCC's Object-Oriented and Distribution Systems Group, Dr. Kim was chief architect of the ORION object-oriented database system. With Dr. Fred Lochovsky, Dr. Kim edited Object-Oriented Concepts, Databases, and Applications. He is currently chairman of ACM SIGMOD, and editor-in-chief of ACM Transactions on Database Systems.

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From the Back Cover

This collection of original contributions by leading database professionals illuminates the technical issues involved in the transition to new database technologies, and in making installed database systems and file systems interoperable.

In its survey of emerging database technologies, the book describes two database challenges, and suggests solutions for them. One challenge is to move from current database technologies to a variety of post-relational technologies: object-oriented database systems, systems that accommodate functional extensions, and systems that support temporal, spatial, and multimedia data management. A second challenge is to provide interoperability of database systems and file systems currently installed worldwide. While database vendors now offer gateways allowing relational database systems to interact with non-relational systems, multidatabase systems soon will allow users to access a range of systems in a single, uniform, database language. Modern Database Systems shows how emerging database applications require new and innovative database systems, defining the issues involved, proposing solutions, and suggesting directions fro future research and development. Database designers, developers, and users will find both a comprehensive picture of the most current technologies and a preview of what is to come.

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Edition details

• Publisher: Addison Wesley
• Publication date: 1994
• ISBN 10: 0201590980
• ISBN 13: 9780201590982
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 736