The CORAL deductive system

  • Authors:
  • Raghu Ramakrishnan;Divesh Srivastava;S. Sudarshan;Praveen Seshadri

  • Affiliations:
  • University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI;AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ;AT&T Bell Laboratories, Murray Hill, NJ;University of Wisconsin, Madison, WI

  • Venue:
  • The VLDB Journal — The International Journal on Very Large Data Bases - Prototypes of deductive database systems
  • Year:
  • 1994

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Abstract

CORAL is a deductive system that supports a rich declarative language, and an interface to C++, which allows for a combination of declarative and imperative programming. A CORAL declarative program can be organized as a collection of interacting modules. CORAL supports a wide range of evaluation strategies, and automatically chooses an efficient strategy for each module in the program. Users can guide query optimization by selecting from a wide range of control choices. The CORAL system provides imperative constructs to update, insert, and delete facts. Users can program in a combination of declarative CORAL and C++ extended with CORAL primitives. A high degree of extensibility is provided by allowing C++ programmers to use the class structure of C++ to enhance the CORAL implementation. CORAL provides support for main-memory data and, using the EXODUS storage manager, disk-resident data. We present a comprehensive view of the system from broad design goals, the language, and the architecture, to language interfaces and implementation details.