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Extending the ODMG architecture with a deductive object query language

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Deductive database languages have often evolved with little regard for ongoing developments in other parts of the database community. This tendency has also been prevalent in deductive object-oriented database (DOOD) research, where it is often difficult to relate proposals to the emerging standards for object-oriented or object-relational databases. This paper seeks to buck the trend by indicating how deductive languages can be integrated into the ODMG standard, and makes a proposal for a deductive component in the ODMG context. The deductive component, which is called DOQL, is designed to conform to the main principles of ODMG compliant languages, providing a powerful complementary mechanism for querying, view definition and application development in ODMG databases.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, University of Manchester, Oxford Road, M13 9PL, Manchester, UK

    Norman W. Paton & Pedro R. Falcone Sampaio

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Suzanne M. Embury Nicholas J. Fiddian W. Alex Gray Andrew C. Jones

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Paton, N.W., Sampaio, P.R.F. (1998). Extending the ODMG architecture with a deductive object query language. In: Embury, S.M., Fiddian, N.J., Gray, W.A., Jones, A.C. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053478

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