Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface.

Michael Stonebraker, Lawrence A. Rowe: Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface. VLDB 1984: 3-13

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/StonebrakerR84,
  author    = {Michael Stonebraker and
               Lawrence A. Rowe},
  editor    = {Umeshwar Dayal and
               Gunter Schlageter and
               Lim Huat Seng},
  title     = {Database Portals: A New Application Program Interface},
  booktitle = {Tenth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, August
               27-31, 1984, Singapore, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1984},
  isbn      = {0-934613-16-8},
  pages     = {3-13},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/StonebrakerR84.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/84},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

This paper describes the design and proposes an implementation for a new application program interface to a database management system. Programs which browse through a database making ad-hoc updates are not well served by conventional embeddings of DBMS commands in programming languages. A new embedding is suggested which overcomes all deficiencies. This construct, called a portal, allows a program to request a collection of tuples at once and supports novel concurrency control schemes.

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