Extending the ODMG object model with composite objects

  • Authors:
  • Elisa Bertino;Giovanna Guerrini

  • Affiliations:
  • Dipartimento di Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Milano, Via Comelico, 39/41 20135 Milano, Italy;Dipartimento di Informatica e Scienze dell'Informazione, Università di Genova, Via Dodecaneso, 35 16146 Genova, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the 13th ACM SIGPLAN conference on Object-oriented programming, systems, languages, and applications
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

In this paper we extend the ODMG object data model with composite objects. A composite object is an object built by aggregating other component objects. Exclusiveness and dependency constraints, as well as referential integrity, can be associated with composition relationships among objects. Our composite object model is developed in the framework of the ODMG object database standard data model, but can be used in both object-oriented and object-relational database systems. In the paper, we propose a language for defining composite objects and we define the semantics of update operations on composite objects.