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Flora: A functional-style language for object and relational algebra

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Database and Expert Systems Applications (DEXA 1994)

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Abstract

Flora is a low-level language for implementing object-oriented databases. It is not intended as a user language, but rather as an intermediate language capable of supporting a variety of higher-level languages and applications. Flora has a very general data model with complex values and objects, constructs for specifying data storage, and a functionalstyle action language that incorporates set processing operations and a user-defined function capability. Flora provides the low-level building blocks that allow the calling language to appropriately model higher-level constructs such as classes and inheritance, and to build complex queries in a manner that readily supports various optimization schemes.

This work was partially funded by the Esprit project IDEA.

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  1. Projet Rodin, INRIA-Rocquencourt, B.P. 105, 78153, Le Chesnay Cedex, France

    Michael Novak, Georges Gardarin & Patrick Valduriez

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Novak, M., Gardarin, G., Valduriez, P. (1994). Flora: A functional-style language for object and relational algebra. In: Karagiannis, D. (eds) Database and Expert Systems Applications. DEXA 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 856. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58435-8_169

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