Title :
An object-oriented prototype for a geophysical database
Author :
Ramanathan, Chandrashekar ; Koduri, Sridhar
Author_Institution :
Mississippi State Univ., MS, USA
Abstract :
Database management systems (DBMSs) are being used in a wide variety of domains to handle many types of data. Scientific data pose a special challenge to DBMSs due to their volume and complex nature. The object-oriented model has many additional capabilities over the relational model that enables the database designer to capture the semantics of the data better. The paper describes the process of re-engineering a part of a relational database to an object-oriented database. The transformation of the relational schema to an object-oriented schema, the implementation of the new schema using an object-oriented DBMS, and a user interface for the new database are described
Keywords :
computational linguistics; data structures; geophysics; geophysics computing; object-oriented databases; relational databases; scientific information systems; systems analysis; systems re-engineering; user interfaces; database designer; database management systems; geophysical database; object-oriented database; object-oriented model; object-oriented prototype; re-engineering; relational database; relational model; scientific data; semantics; user interface; Casting; Data models; Database systems; Information retrieval; Navigation; Numerical models; Object oriented databases; Object oriented modeling; Prototypes; Relational databases;
Conference_Titel :
System Theory, 1995., Proceedings of the Twenty-Seventh Southeastern Symposium on
Conference_Location :
Starkville, MS
Print_ISBN :
0-8186-6985-3
DOI :
10.1109/SSST.1995.390596
