New Directions in Database-Systems Research and Development

Abstract

In this paper, three new directions in database-systems research and development are indicated. One new direction is the emergence of the multilingual database systems where a single database system can execute many transactions written respectively in different data languages and support many databases structured correspondingly in various data models. Thus, a multi-lingual database system allows the old transactions and existing databases to be migrated to the new system, the user to explore the strong features of the various data languages and data models in the same system, the hardware upgrade to be focused on a single system instead of a heterogeneous collection of database systems, and the database application to cover wider types of transactions and interaction in the same environment. One other new direction is the emphasis of the multi-backend database systems where the database system is configured with a number of microprocessor-based processing units and their disk subsystems. These processing units and disk subsystems are called database backends. The unique characteristics of the backends are that the number of the backends is variable, the system software in all of the backends is identical, and the multiplicity of the backends is proportional to the performance and capacity of the system. Thus, for the first time, a multi-backend database system enables the user to relate the amount of hardware used (i.e., the number of the backends) to the degree of performance gain and capacity growth of the system. The third new direction is the possibility of the multi-host database systems where a single database system can communicate with a variable number and heterogeneous collection of mainframes in several different data languages and allow the mainframes to share the common database store and access.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Feb 01, 1985
Accession Number
ADA522360

Entities

People

  • David K. Hsiao
  • Steven A. Demurjian

Organizations

  • Naval Postgraduate School

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Computer Programming
  • Computer Science
  • Computers
  • Database Management Systems
  • Databases
  • Information Systems
  • Language
  • Mainframe Computers
  • Military Research
  • Operating Systems
  • Programming Languages
  • Relational Database Management Systems
  • Relational Databases
  • Software Development
  • System Software

Fields of Study

  • Computer science

Readers

  • Computer Science/Computer Engineering/Data Science/Digital Signal Processing.
  • Database Systems and Applications