• DocumentCode
    1400803
  • Title

    The role of polymorphism in schema evolution in an object-oriented database

  • Author

    Osborn, Sylvia L.

  • Author_Institution
    Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Western Ontario, London, Ont., Canada
  • Volume
    1
  • Issue
    3
  • fYear
    1989
  • fDate
    9/1/1989 12:00:00 AM
  • Firstpage
    310
  • Lastpage
    317
  • Abstract
    A polymorphic object algebra for an object-oriented database model is introduced. Types of schema modification that follow naturally from this model are described. It is shown to what extent queries return identical or equivalent results when the objects in the database are modified to conform to a modified schema
  • Keywords
    database management systems; database theory; object-oriented programming; model; object-oriented database; polymorphic object algebra; polymorphism; schema evolution; Aggregates; Algebra; Data models; Database languages; Database systems; Indexes; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Object oriented programming; Relational databases;
  • fLanguage
    English
  • Journal_Title
    Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on
  • Publisher
    ieee
  • ISSN
    1041-4347
  • Type

    jour

  • DOI
    10.1109/69.87977
  • Filename
    87977