Notes on building a relational database management system in Ada

  • Authors:

  • Olavi Poutanen;Kari-Matti Varanki;Tapio Välimäki

  • Affiliations:

  • Oy Softplan Ab, Box 209, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland;Oy Softplan Ab, Box 209, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland;Oy Softplan Ab, Box 209, SF-33101 Tampere, Finland

  • Venue:
  • SIGAda '85 Proceedings of the 1985 annual ACM SIGAda international conference on Ada
  • Year:
  • 1985

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Abstract

It seems, at the moment, that although there have been papers published that deal with database management in an Ada environment there is still very little practical experience in that field.Using Ada we have developed an Ada compatible relational database management system, called DMS/MPS10. In this paper we discuss some of its basic implementation ideas as well as some Ada specific issues that have arisen in the course of the work. Mostly we concentrate on describing how database design and documentation can take place using Ada concepts. That is, defining database domains as Ada types, defining table rows as Ada records etc. At the end of this paper there are some notes on the DMS/MPS10 runtime arrangements.