Schema transformation without database reorganization

  • Authors:
  • Markus Tresch;Marc H. Scholl

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

We argue for avoiding database reorganizations due to schema modification in object-oriented systems, since these are expensive operations and they conflict with reusing existing software components. We show that data independence, which is a neglected concept in object databases, helps to avoid reorganizations in case of capacity preserving and reducing schema transformations. We informally present a couple of examples to illustrate the idea of a schema transformation methodology that avoids database reorganization.