Implementing Relational Operations in an Object-Oriented Database

Abstract

This thesis expands the concepts of relational/object-oriented database systems. There are two different approaches to combining relational and object-oriented databases. This thesis takes the approach of adding relational operations to an object-oriented database rather than building an object-oriented layer on top of an existing relational database. The system proposed in this thesis was developed in the object-oriented programming language Prograph. It was chosen because it contains primitive operations for reading and writing database files to secondary storage and for manipulating complex data types (e. g., sounds, and pictures). This thesis demonstrates that the limitations of current systems can be remedied and that the relational/object-oriented database management system is indeed a feasible solution.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1992
Accession Number
ADA249332

Entities

People

  • Stephen C. Filippi

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

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Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Programs
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Domain Specific Programming Languages
  • High Level Languages
  • Language
  • Object Oriented Programming
  • Object-Oriented Programming Language
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Software Development
  • Trees (Data Structures)

Fields of Study

  • Computer science
  • Engineering

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  • Database Systems and Applications