The logical data model

  • Authors:
  • Gabriel M. Kuper;Moshe Y. Vardi

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM T. J. Watson Research Center, Yorktown Heights, NY;IBM Almaden Research Center, San Jose, CA

  • Venue:
  • ACM Transactions on Database Systems (TODS)
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We propose an object-oriented data model that generalizes the relational, hierarchical, and network models. A database scheme in this model is a directed graph, whose leaves represent data and whose internal nodes represent connections among the data. Instances are constructed from objects, which have separate names and values. We define a logic for the model, and describe a nonprocedural query language that is based on the logic. We also describe an algebraic query language and show that it is equivalent to the logical language.