James A. Larson, Beaverton, OR

Published July, 1995 by Prentice Hall PTR (ECS Professional)

Copyright 1995, 288 pp.
Paper
ISBN 0-13-290867-0
$52.00

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Without getting into the details and complexities of specific commercial products, this book introduces database management techniques that go beyond today's relational database management systems — e.g., distributed, textual, multimedia, and object-oriented.

Covers distributed database management systems — what they are, why we need them, and when to implement them. Discusses the risks associated with distributed DBMSs, presents alternative solutions to the major technical problems, points out the major pitfalls of distributed DBMSs, and offers suggestions for avoiding them. Considers three types of textual based systems — information retrieval, hoovering, and filtering — and describes various approaches to distributed textual database management systems. Explores multimedia DBMSs that manage a variety of new media types (e.g., text, image, audio, and video data types), describes the special problems introduced by multimedia (e.g., large data objects, continuous temporal data objects, and the problems of synchronization multiple streams of temporal data). Describes the basic principles of object-oriented data, and describes the types of DBMS that manage this type of data. For data processing managers, systems managers, application developers, database administrators, and others who are considering the use of distributed DBMS or non-relational DBMSs.

1. Basic Concepts and Terminology.
2. Software Architecture for Sharing Data.
3. Federated Database Management Systems.
4. Designing Distributed Database.
5. Designing Distributed Execution Plans.
6. Distributed Transactions.
7. Client-Server Architecture.
8. Text-based Database Systems.
9. Multimedia Databases.
10. Object-Oriented DBMS.
Appendix A: Communications.
Appendix B: Selecting a Commercial Distributed DBMS.