Research Catalog

Title

Readings in database systems / edited by Michael Stonebraker.

Publication

• San Mateo, Calif. : Morgan Kaufmann Publishers, Inc., ©1988.
• ©1988.

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Details

Additional Authors

Stonebraker, Michael.

Description

xii, 644 pages : illustrations; 28 cm

Summary

In this collection of articles, the breadth of database research and applications is represented. Many of the forty articles are sourced from out-of-print or limited circulation journals, and technical reports, and the editors conversational introductions offer insightful and provocative views, while suggesting ideas for further research. Each section addresses a different area, beginning with the roots of database research, followed by query optimization, distributed database systems, and ending with database performance. This volume can be used as principal or supplemental text for courses, and as a resource for students, researchers, and database designers.

Subject

• Databases
• Relational databases
• Distributed databases
• Database management
• Query languages (Computer science)
• Datenbanksystem
• Databanken
• Bases de données > Gestion

Genre/Form

• Instructional and educational works.
• Matériel d'éducation et de formation.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographies and indexes.

Contents

• The roots ; Introduction -- A relational model of data for large shared data banks / E. F. Codd -- System R : a relational approach to database management / M. M. Astrahan, M. W. Blasgen, D. D. Chamberlin, K. P. Eswaran, J. N. Gray, P. P. Griffiths, W. F. King, R. A. Lorie, P. R. McJones, J. W. Mehl, G. R. Putzolu, I. L. Traiger, B. W. Wade, and V. Watson -- The design and implementation of INGRES / M. Stonebraker, E. Wong, P. Kreps, and G. Held -- A history and evaluation of System R / D. D. Chamberlin, M. M. Astrahan, M. W. Blasgen, J. N. Gray, W. F. King, B. G. Lindsay, R. Lorie, J. W. Mehl, T. G. Price, F. Putzolu, P. G. Selinger, M. Schkolnick, D. R. Slutz, I. L. Traiger, B. W. Wade, and R. A. Yost -- Retrospection on a database system / M. Stonebraker -- Relational implementation techniques ; Introduction -- Access path selection in a relational database management system / P. G. Selinger, M. M. Astrahan, D. D. Chamberlin, R. A. Lorie, and T. G. Price -- Granularity of locks and degrees of consistency in a shared data base / J. N. Gray, R. A. Lorie, G. R. Putzolu, and I. L. Traiger -- On optimistic methods for concurrency control / H. T. Kung and J. T. Robinson -- Concurrency of operations on B-trees / R. Bayer and M. Schkolnick -- The transaction concept : virtues and limitations / J. Gray -- Principles of transaction-oriented database recovery / T. Haerder and A. Reuter -- Operating system support for database management / M. Stonebraker -- An evaluation of buffer management strategies for relational database systems / H. Chou and D. DeWitt --
• Distributed database systems ; Introduction -- R* : an overview of the architecture / R. Williams, D. Daniels, L. Haas, G. Lapis, B. Lindsay, P. Ng, R. Obermarck, P. Selinger, A. Walker, P. Wilms, and R. Yost -- R* optimizer validation and performance evaluation for distributed queries / L. F. Mackert and G. M. Lohman -- Concurrency control in distributed database systems / P. A. Bernstein and N. Goodman -- Nonblocking commit protocols / D. Skeen -- An efficient, fault-tolerant protocol for replicated data management / A. El Abbadi, D. Skeen, and F. Cristian -- Performance and database machines ; Introduction -- A retrospective on the Wisconsin benchmark / D. Bitton and C. Turbyfill -- A measure of transaction processing power / Anon et al -- Highly available systems for database applications -- GAMMA : a high performance dataflow database machine -- User interfaces ; Introduction -- Some high level language constructs for data of type relation / J. W. Schmidt -- Fill-in-the-form programming / L. A. Rowe -- Entity-relationship database user interfaces / T. R. Rogers and R. G. G. Cattell --
• New data models ; Introduction -- The entity-relationship model : toward a unified view of data / P. Chen -- The functional data model and the data language DAPLEX / D. W. Shipman -- Database description with SDM : a semantic database model / M. Hammer and D. McLeod -- The database language GEM / C. Zaniolo -- Making a smalltalk a database system / G. Copeland and D. Maier -- Data model issues for object-oriented applications / J. Banerjee, H. Chou, J. F. Garza, W. Kim, D. Woelk, N. Ballou, and H. Kim -- Extending the database relational model to capture more meaning / E. F. Codd -- Extendability ; Introduction -- Inclusion of new types in relational data base systems / M. Stonebraker -- The architecture of the EXODUS extensible DBMS / M. J. Carey, D. J. DeWitt, D. Frank, G. Graefe, M. Muralikrishna, J. E. Richardson, and E. J. Shekita -- Integration of knowledge and data management ; Introduction -- An amateur's introduction to recursive query processing strategies / F. Bancilhon and R. Ramakrishnan -- The design of the POSTGRES rules system / M. Stonebraker, E. Hanson, and C. Hong -- Storage management issues ; Introduction -- Linear hashing : a new tool for file and table addressing / W. Litwin -- The grid file : an adaptable, symmetric multikey file structure / J. Nievergelt, H. Hinterberger, and K. C. Sevcik -- R-trees : a dynamic index structure for spatial searching / A. Guttman -- The design of the POSTGRES storage system / M. Stonebraker.

ISBN

• 0934613656
• 9780934613651
• 0934513656 (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

88012742

OCLC

• ocm18016819
• 18016819
• SCSB-1959239

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library