Constructing the next 100 database management systems: like the handyman or like the engineer?

  • Authors:
  • Andreas Geppert;Klaus R. Dittrich

  • Affiliations:
  • Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich;Institut für Informatik, Universität Zürich

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

While the number of database management systems (DBMSs) increases and the various DBMSs get more and more complex, no uniform method for DBMS construction exists. As a result, developers are forced to start more or less from scratch again for every desired system, resulting in a waste of time, effort, and cost. Hence, the database community is challenged with the development of an appropriate method, i.e. the time-saving application of engineering principles (e.g., reuse). Problems related to a construction method are described, as well as approaches towards solutions.