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Intermedia: A case study of the differences between relational and object-oriented database systems

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Karen E. Smith,

Stanley B. ZdonikAuthors Info & Claims

ACM SIGPLAN Notices, Volume 22, Issue 12

Pages 452 - 465

https://doi.org/10.1145/38807.38849

Published: 01 December 1987 Publication History

Abstract

This paper compares two approaches to meeting the data handling requirements of Intermedia, a hypermedia system developed at the Institute for Research in Information and Scholarship at Brown University. Intermedia, though written using an object-oriented programming language, relies on a traditional relational database management system for data storage and retrieval. We examine the ramifications of replacing the relational database with an object-oriented database. We begin by describing the important characteristics each database system. We then describe Intermedia and give an overview of its architecture and its data handling requirements. We explain why and how we used a relational database management system and the problems that we encountered with this system. We then present the design of an object-oriented database schema for Intermedia and compare the relational and object-oriented database management system approaches.

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1. Information systems
  1. Data management systems
    1. Database design and models

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ACM SIGPLAN Notices Volume 22, Issue 12

Dec. 1987

493 pages

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DOI:10.1145/38807

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OOPSLA '87: Conference proceedings on Object-oriented programming systems, languages and applications
December 1987
493 pages
ISBN:0897912470
DOI:10.1145/38765
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