Introduction to Interoperable Multidatabase Systems

Introduction to Interoperable Multidatabase Systems, 1/e

Witold Litwin, Menlo Park, CA
Ming Chien Shan, Saratoga, CA

Coming January, 2002 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

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Summary

This book presents the techniques for the design and use of multidatabase systems — those which generalize database systems with features for shared access to multiple databases, while preserving the local autonomy, the heterogenicity of existing data, and the existing applications. It describes the concept, the need, and the evolution of the database systems; addresses issues of reference architectures, semantic heterogenicity, and autonomy; discusses the user interfaces, and proposals for multidatabase languages for popular types of databases: SQL, OO, information retrieval and knowledge bases; considers the internals of multidatabase systems, e.g., system architectures, gateways, query, and transaction processing; discusses prototypes and commercial multidatabase systems; and presents the emerging standard, e.g., RDA, SQL-Access.

Features

describes the concept, the need, and the evolution of the database systems.
addresses issues of reference architectures, semantic heterogenicity, and autonomy.
discusses the user interfaces, and proposals for multidatabase languages for popular types of databases: SQL, OO, information retrieval and knowledge bases.
considers the internals of multidatabase systems, e.g., system architectures, gateways, query, and transaction processing.
discusses prototypes and commercial multidatabase systems.
presents the emerging standard, e.g., RDA, SQL-Access.

Table of Contents

1. Introduction.
2. Evolution of Database Systems.
3. Reference Architecture for Multidatabase Systems.
4. Issues in Interoperability.
5. Autonomy.
6. Multidatabase Models and Languages.
7. Multidatabase Transaction Management.
8. Multidatabase Query Processing.
9. Security and Confidentiality.
10. Prototypes.
11. Emerging Standards for Multidatabase Interoperability.
12. Multidatabase Management in Commercial Systems.
13. Trends.
14. Conclusion.
References.