This volume aims to present recent advances in database technology from the viewpoint of the novel database paradigms proposed in the last decade. It focuses on the theory of the extended relational model and an example of an extended relational database programming language, Algres, is described. A free copy of Algres complements this work, and is available on the Internet.
Audience: This work will be of interest to graduate students following advanced database courses, advanced data-oriented applications developers, and researchers in the field of database programming languages and software engineering who need a flexible prototyping platform for the development of software tools.
Author(s): Filippo Cacace, Gianfranco Lamperti (auth.)
Series: Mathematics and Its Applications 371
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer Netherlands
Year: 1996
Language: English
Pages: 394
Tags: Document Preparation and Text Processing; Programming Languages, Compilers, Interpreters; Data Structures, Cryptology and Information Theory; Software Engineering/Programming and Operating Systems; Symbolic and Algebraic Manipulation
Front Matter....Pages i-xvi
Introduction....Pages 1-16
Overview of Recent Evolution in Database Technology....Pages 17-113
Theory of the Nested Relational Model....Pages 114-151
Algres, an Extended Relational Database Programming Language....Pages 152-204
Programming in Algres....Pages 205-293
Alice, the Application Program Interface of Algres....Pages 294-330
Algraph, the Graphical Interface of Algres....Pages 331-355
Back Matter....Pages 356-398
