Types for databases: the Galileo experience

  • Authors:
  • Antonio Albano;Giorgio Ghelli;Renzo Orsini

  • Affiliations:
  • -;-;-

  • Venue:
  • Proceedings of the second international workshop on Database programming languages
  • Year:
  • 1989

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Abstract

Object-oriented databases are receiving wide attention these days to overcome the limitations of commercial DBMS. The object-oriented approach to the design of database languages is a very promising one to improve the application development process. These improvements come from the natural modeling capability, data abstraction, and inheritance mechanism provided by the object paradigm. The language Galileo [Albano 85] is a step towards this direction, and in this paper the critical aspects of its type system are discussed, using a recently proposed framework for comparing type systems for database programming languages.