Using the co-existence approach to achieve combined functionality of object-oriented and relational systems

  • Authors:
  • R. Ananthanarayanan;V. Gottemukkala;W. Kaefer;T. J. Lehman;H. Pirahesh

  • Affiliations:
  • Georgia Institute of Technology;Georgia Institute of Technology;IBM Almaden Research Center;IBM Almaden Research Center;IBM Almaden Research Center

  • Venue:
  • SIGMOD '93 Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data
  • Year:
  • 1993

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Abstract

Once considered a novelty, object oriented systems have now entered the mainstream. Their impressive performance and rich type systems have created a demand for object oriented features in other areas, such as relational database systems. We believe the current efforts to combine object oriented and relational features into a single hybrid system will fall short of the mark, whereas our approach, the co-existence approach, has the distinction of requiring far less work, but at the same time promising both the desired functionality and performance. We describe the attributes of our co-existing systems, an object oriented system (C++) and a relational system (Starburst), and show how this combination supports the desired features of both object-oriented and relational systems.