A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language.

Antonio Albano, Giorgio Ghelli, Renzo Orsini: A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented Database Programming Language. VLDB 1991: 565-575

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  author    = {Antonio Albano and
               Giorgio Ghelli and
               Renzo Orsini},
  editor    = {Guy M. Lohman and
               Am\'{\i}lcar Sernadas and
               Rafael Camps},
  title     = {A Relationship Mechanism for a Strongly Typed Object-Oriented
               Database Programming Language},
  booktitle = {17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September
               3-6, 1991, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1991},
  isbn      = {1-55860-150-3},
  pages     = {565-575},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/AlbanoGO91.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/91},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Object-oriented data models are receiving wide attention since they provide expressive abstraction mechanisms to model naturally and directly both structural and behavioral aspects of complex databases applications. In an object- oriented data model, a database is modeled in terms of objects grouped in classes, organized into subclasses hierarchies. Moreover, associations between entities are modeled by defining properties of objects whose value is the related object. However this way of modeling associations has several limitations which make the description of some aspects of associations unnatural. To overcome these limitations an object-relationship data model is proposed which supports both the mechanisms of an object- oriented data model and a separate mechanism to model explicitly associations and to express declaratively common constraints on them. Constructs to support this model for a statically and strongly typed object-oriented database programming language are defined.

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