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Supporting Object-Oriented Processing by Redundant Storage Structure
Andrea Sikeler
University Kaiserslautern, Department of Computer Science,
P.O. Box 3049, D-6750 Kaiserslautern, West Germany
Abstract
The development of a new generation of database management systems (DBMS) capable of supporting advanced applications has emerged as an important direction in DBMS research. Adequate modeling and efficient processing of complex objects have proven to be one of the most important issues in this context. Thus, object-oriented data models allowing for the manipulation of complex objects are proposed as an appropriate interface of such a DBMS. However, this is not sufficient. The DBMS itself has to support complex object processing by a variety of storage structures, use of tuning mechanisms, and performance enhancements transparent at the data model interface. This paper presents some considerations as to the support of complex object processing by redundant storage structures. The underlying concept is to utilize storage redundancy for retrieval and to conceal storage redundancy in case of manipulation.
in: Proc. Int. Conf. on Computing and Information, Toronto, May 1989, pp. 351-357
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