Building a Laboratory Information System Around a C++-Based Object-Oriented DBMS.

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/GoodmanRS94,
  author    = {Nathan Goodman and
               Steve Rozen and
               Lincoln Stein},
  editor    = {Jorge B. Bocca and
               Matthias Jarke and
               Carlo Zaniolo},
  title     = {Building a Laboratory Information System Around a C++-Based Object-Oriented
               DBMS},
  booktitle = {VLDB'94, Proceedings of 20th International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, September 12-15, 1994, Santiago de Chile, Chile},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1994},
  isbn      = {1-55860-153-8},
  pages     = {722-729},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/vldb94-722.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/94},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

MapBase is a laboratory information system that has been supporting a high-throughput genome-mapping operation for the last three years. We chose to build MapBase around a C++-based OODBMS because, like CAD, CASE, and GIS applications, MapBase must be able to represent complex data and operations while providing fast response.

However, MapBase also turned out to share many characteristics of classical information systems: it provides a central repository of carefully administered, mission-critical data used by clients written in many languages and running on a variety of hardware. In addition, our laboratory emphasizes continuous process re-engineering, with the result that MapBase's schema must evolve rapidly in order to reflect the current experimental workflow.

We discuss how the technical characteristics of our OODBMS interacted with our requirements to form MapBase's current architecture, and we analyze its strengths and weaknesses.

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