A Generalized DBMS to Support Diverse Data.

Abstract

The authors proposed a research program to develop a generalized database manager to support diverse kinds of data including text, icons, forms, maps and other spatial data. The proposed research also included investigating support for integrated data browsers to allow end-users to query, step through, and update diverse data. Specific topics to be investigated included query language facilities to support text and geometric data, user-defined abstract data types in a DBMS, an ordered relation access method for text and other ordered data, extended secondary indexes, main memory databases, concurrency control for data browsers, and an application program interface based on windows. This paper reports on our progress during the first year of this program. The major advances have been made in the areas of abstract data types, main memory data bases and extended secondary indexes. (Author)

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 09, 1985
Accession Number
ADA162384

Entities

People

  • Elissa W.P. Wong
  • Lori A. Rowe
  • M. Stonebraker

Organizations

  • University of California, Berkeley

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Human Systems
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Classification
  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computer-Aided Design
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Engineering
  • Geometric Forms
  • Hash Tables
  • Height
  • Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Trees (Data Structures)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

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  • Business Analytics
  • Database Systems and Applications