A Visual Approach to Browsing in a Database Environment
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From the point of view of the ability to manage complex data, object-oriented database systems are superior to conventional database systems. Query languages for object-oriented databases, however, tend to be overly complicated for the casual user unfamiliar with sophisticated database manipulation. This paper describes an IconicBrowser which allows the user to retrieve objects in a database by means of icons. Icons represent classes and objects in the database. Queries are specified by overlapping one icon over another. The system then interprets them into the database operations depending on their combination, and at the same time generates predicate-based (text-base) queries which can be used in other applications of the database.