A Functional Framework for Database Management Systems.

Abstract

The concept of DBMS architecture played an important role in the design, analysis, and comparison of DBMSs as well as in the development of other database concepts. the ANSI/SPARC prototypical database system architecture was a major contribution in this development. The architecture raised many issues, stimulated considerable research, and posed a number of new problems. Since the basic formulation of the ANSI architecture, in 1974, little consideration was given to resolving problems and accommodating new and future developments. The main problems concern its unnecessary ridgidity. The contributions of this paper are a distinction between DBMS framework and DBMS architecture, and a functional DBMS framework. The framework was developed using a functional approach in which a DEMS is characterized abstractly in terms of functional components and their potential relationships. The approach is based on the notions of modularity and data abstraction as developed in software engineering and programming languages. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1980
Accession Number
ADA105109

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