Design and Analysis of an SQL (Structured Query Language) Interface for a Multi-Backend Database System.

Abstract

Recent research in the area of database machines has been directed at achieving greater efficiency and increasing user-friendliness. This thesis is concerned with the second of these research directions, increasing user-friendliness. One development toward increased user-friendliness is the growing acceptance of the relational data model and relational query languages. Relational interfaces provide the user with an easy-to-understand data representation and language with which to manipulate the data. This thesis presents the design and analysis of a relational query language interface, using the SQL relational query language, for the Multi-Backend Database System (MDBS), a database machine which uses the attribute-based model. The purpose is two-fold: first, to provide the user with an easier-to-understand language-to-machine interface, thereby making MDBS available to the wider community of relational database users; second, to investigate how the attribute-based model may be used to support relational databases. (Author)

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Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1984
Accession Number
ADA146534

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