Object-oriented database management applications in engineering and computer science / Alfons Kemper, Guido Moerkotte

Provides a comprehensive state-of-the-art exploration of concepts, tools, design methodologies and systems of object-oriented information management for advance applications in such areas as engineering, VLSI design, architecture and science.

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Main Author: Kemper, Alfons Heinrich
Other Authors: Moerkotte, Guido
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Englewood Cliffs, NJ Prentice Hall 1994
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction
  • 1. New Frontiers for Database Application
  • 2. Data Modeling Basics
  • 3. Application Areas
  • The Relational Approach
  • 4. The Relational Database Model
  • 5. Assessment of Conventional Database Technology
  • 6. Extensions of Relational DBMSs
  • Object-Oriented Modeling and Languages
  • 7. Objects and Types
  • 8. Specifying the Behavior of Objects
  • 9. Implementing Relationships
  • 10. Inheritance
  • 11. Virtual Types and Type Case
  • 12. Polymorphic Operations and Generic Types
  • 13. Multiple Inheritance and Multiple Substitutability
  • 14. Associative Object Access
  • Control Concepts
  • 15. Transaction Control
  • 16. Authorization
  • 17.
  • Version Control
  • 18. Schema Management
  • Physical Object Base Design
  • 19. Clustering
  • 20. Index Structures
  • 21. Function Materialization
  • 22. Pointer Swizzling
  • Sample Systems
  • 23. GemStone
  • 24. Ontos: An Integrated Object System
  • 25. O[subscript 2]
  • 26. Two Other Commercial Systems
  • 27.
  • Selected Systems