Constructing Database Systems in a Persistent Environment.

Richard Cooper, Malcolm P. Atkinson, Alan Dearle, D. Abderrahmane: Constructing Database Systems in a Persistent Environment. VLDB 1987: 117-125

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/CooperADA87,
  author    = {Richard Cooper and
               Malcolm P. Atkinson and
               Alan Dearle and
               D. Abderrahmane},
  editor    = {Peter M. Stocker and
               William Kent and
               Peter Hammersley},
  title     = {Constructing Database Systems in a Persistent Environment},
  booktitle = {VLDB'87, Proceedings of 13th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 1-4, 1987, Brighton, England},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1987},
  isbn      = {0-934613-46-X},
  pages     = {117-125},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/CooperADA87.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/87},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

The goal of the Persistent Programming Research Group is the provision of an environment which incorporates the principle of orthogonal persistence in order to facilitate the production of large and complex software. A database management system constitutes such software and in this paper we show how a persistent store assists in the construction of such a system. We show that a small number of features in a simple persistent programming language enable efficient implementations of various data models to be built quickly. The paper surveys three attempts to provide database programs using PS-algol. In the first, the implementation of a single interface system is greatly aided by persistence. The second shows how it is possible to provide software which includes a multiplicity of interfaces and a multiplicity of underlying data models. Finally we present a novel approach which makes use of run-time compilation to create efficient storage structures tailored to the application. These experiments represent the early development of a methodology for choosing an appropriate mixture of static and dynamic binding when using persistent programming languages.

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