Invited talk: modular architectures for distributed and databases systems

Authors:
A. Z. Spector
Affiliations:
Department of Computer Science &, Information Technology Center, Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA
Venue:
PODS '89 Proceedings of the eighth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
Year:
1989

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Abstract

This paper describes the importance of modularity in systems and lists a number of reasons why systems will become increasingly modular. It describes two strawmen architecture models for systems and distributed databases in order to illustrate the hierarchical decomposition of complex systems. The paper also relates the systems model to the layering achieved in a few systems familiar to the author.