A functional view of data independence

  • Authors:
  • Michael Stonebraker

  • Affiliations:
  • -

  • Venue:
  • SIGFIDET '74 Proceedings of the 1974 ACM SIGFIDET (now SIGMOD) workshop on Data description, access and control
  • Year:
  • 1974

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Abstract

Many researchers have used the term “data independence” without indicating a precise meaning. One common definition is—the isolation of a program from considerations of the data which it processes [1,2].Another is—the ability of an applications program to execute correctly regardless of the actual storage of its data[3,4].Although these suggest the general concept, a precise framework is clearly needed. The current paper provides such a framework and explores its ramifications.