Heterogeneity in the Distributed Database Management System SIRIUS-DELTA.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/FerrierS82,
  author    = {Arlette Ferrier and
               Christine Stangret},
  title     = {Heterogeneity in the Distributed Database Management System SIRIUS-DELTA},
  booktitle = {Eigth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September
               8-10, 1982, Mexico City, Mexico, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1982},
  isbn      = {0-934613-14-1},
  pages     = {45-53},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/FerrierS82.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/82},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

Within the pilot project SIRIUS (ADI, INRIA), we have studied the problems set by the cooperation of heterogeneous components in a DDBMS.

Heterogeneity appears at many levels : computer, DBMS, data manipulation language, etc. The aims of a heterogeneous DDBMS are:

• to allow the users to manipulate the distributed database like a unique database and with the language they use to practice,
• to make possible the integration of an existing database in the DDBMS.

In the SIRIUS-DELTA heterogeneous prototype, computers as well as DBMSs and languages are different. We have designed a pivot system, that is to say a set of functions which have to be ensured by every system in the DDBMS. These functions are implemented using the existing services of the different systems.

We have studied a pivot model and a pivot language and implemented it on the DDBMS SIRIUS-DELTA and two other systems:

• PHLOX, a navigational DBMS for micro-computers,
• MRDS, a relational DBMS which runs on the MULTICS operating system implemented on a H.B. 68.

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