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Topic: Gemstone Database Management System


  
  Why Aren't You Using An Object Oriented Database Management System?
Object oriented programming concepts such as encapsulation, polymorphism and inheritance are enforced as well as database management concepts such as the ACID properties (Atomicity, Consistency, Isolation and Durability) which lead to system integrity, support for an ad hoc query language and secondary storage management systems which allow for managing very large amounts of data.
Database operations typically involve obtaining a database root from the the OODBMS which is usually a data structure like a graph, vector, hash table, or set and traversing it to obtain objects to create, update or delete from the database.
Thus applications that use RDBMS systems usually have an Entity Relationship diagram to model the static parts of the system and a seperate model for the operations and behaviors of entities in the application.
www.25hoursaday.com /WhyArentYouUsingAnOODBMS.html   (2830 words)

  
 play.net >> GemStone IV
GemStone IV is designed for the enjoyment of everyone, and as a general rule, any behavior which is specifically targeted to lessen that enjoyment for another player, may be in violation of GemStone IV policy.
GemStone IV is known as a "Roleplaying Game" which means that it is assumed that the player will present their character in a manner that is consistent with the game's environment and genre (medieval fantasy).
In this case, if the breakage system operates correctly thousands of times a day, and attempts to re-create the identical error fail, then the conclusion Simutronics must draw is that the mistake was caused by human error or a communication problem such as line noise, which mangled the output.
www.play.net /gs4/gamepolicy.asp   (3583 words)

  
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Maintaining the integrity of inter-object relationships during object relocation is necessary so that an application, or a database administrator, or the ODBMS may move an object anywhere in the network (as long as it goes to a database managed by the same ODBMS) without breaking application code.
Transaction management is closely related to persistent object recovery functions, and may be implemented using some of the same techniques of imaging or logging.
DBMS as Object Manager in OMG ORB Architecture Figure 1 The client in the lower left of the figure illustrates that it is always possible for object implementors and users to agree to cooperate outside the context of the ORB.
www.omg.org /docs/1992/92-02-18.txt   (6459 words)

  
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Isolation levels are provided by all commercial database systems to allow programmers to trade off consistency for a potential gain in performance.
Some of our conditions are specified in terms of the different types of cycles (involving specified types of conflicts) that must be disallowed in these graphs, e.g., serializability disallows all types of cycles whereas the lowest isolation level disallows only cycles involving updates (and not reads).
However, it allows transactions to update the database in an inconsistent manner (but of course that’s always possible when a lower isolation level allows a reader to see an inconsistent set of values).
research.microsoft.com /~gray/HPTS99/papers/Adya_ONeil_Liskov.htm   (1732 words)

  
 NEWS SECTION "PRESS RELEASES" CocoBase(r) Enterprise O/R and GemFire Integration Provides An Outstanding ...
CocoBase® manages the persistence and retrieval of data (sometimes referred to as the exchange of data) from the application to where it is stored in the relational database.
GemStone Systems is a privately held company with over 20 years of software experience in developing high performance object oriented technology and highly scalable systems for enterprise organizations.
GemStone's patented technology delivers the speed, performance and capabilities that enterprises need from the hardware and software they already own.
www.thoughtinc.com /press_0304_gemstone.html   (832 words)

  
 The Next Step | Spring 2000 | Imaging Economics
The prototype system incorporates a visually enhanced structured relevant report generator that incorporates speech recognition, natural language processing (NLP), and mapping to a standard nomenclature, Standardized Nomenclature of Human and Veterinary Medicine (SNOMED).3 The process flow is shown in Figure 1.
The proposed system allows for processing legacy data in RIS databases, permitting queries related to the knowledge in the reports through the indexing of generated standard structured data.
For the thoracic database example, the query for the reports would be to find all reports with the finding "mass right upper lobe." The resulting set would contain only those reports with the described finding.
www.imagingeconomics.com /issues/articles/2000-04_03.asp   (1935 words)

  
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Third, the management of classes is implicit in that the system automatically maintains classes based on the type lattice whereas the management of collections is explicit, meaning that the user is responsible for their extents.
Call the storage manager to mark object o as deleted and update log if object o is a class then Apply B_drop to every member in the shallow extent of the class endif if object o is a type then Apply B_drop to the associated class of the type: o.
Other systems that support valid and transaction time histories include [DW92,RS91], however, branching time is not directly supported in these systems (branching time is supportable in the model discussed in [DW92], but the burden of developing a branching model is left up to the user).
db.uwaterloo.ca /ddbms/publications/tigukat/vldbjour/paper.ascii   (15880 words)

  
 The History of Database Processing
Database processing was originally used in major corporations and large organizations as the basis of large transaction-processing systems.
Database technology, however, held out the promise of a solution to these problems, and so large companies began to develop organizational databases, Companies centralized their operational data, such as orders, inventory, and accounting data, in these databases.
Thus, the terms ‘database management system and relational database were used loosely at the start of the microcomputer boom.
www.kean.edu /~rmelworm/LuoDatabaseTimeLine.html   (1935 words)

  
 Object Oriented Databases
Thus, once you tie a data structure to the database, you no longer need to be concerned about whether a piece of data is in memory or not; as soon as your program refers to it, the data will be pulled into memory if it is not already there.
Database server is implemented using multithreaded kernel and provides high concurrency on client requests execution.
MonetDB is a database management system developed from a main-memory perspective using a fully decomposed storage model, automatic index management, extensibility of data types and search accelerators, SQL- and XML- frontends.
linuxfinances.info /info/oodbms.html   (1278 words)

  
 Database Management Software System: web database software, dbms software, database system
CONNX is a data access, management and integration tool that extends the life and value of a company's existing systems.
Provides management, control and development of any database engine which is accessible via ODBC driver or OLE DB provider.
Database management tool that provides easy access and manipulation possibilities for any database on the Web.
www.capterra.com /database-management-software   (1296 words)

  
 Gem Stone
Additionally, GemStone provides a query facility for stored objects and the ability to map objects to a relational database.
GemStone is a Smalltalk implementation with native object persistence.
GemStone provides an object-oriented language that more than fills the role of StoredProcedures in RDBMS systems, while most other OODBs do not provide an in-database language.
c2.com /cgi/wiki?GemStone   (262 words)

  
 OODBMS-2: 5.5.1.2 Application Development Process   (Site not responding. Last check: )
GeODE, the GemStone Object Development Environment, provides a multi-developer environment in which all class definitions (i.e., schema), behaviors (i.e., code), and instances (i.e., application data) are represented as objects and managed by the GemStone OODBMS.
Operating characteristics of the GemStone database can be controlled through system level configuration files and user configuration files (for a specific application).
Database administration activities include setting up new user accounts, specifying user privileges, and placing users in authorization groups (which control group access to GemStone objects).
www.dacs.dtic.mil /techs/oodbms2/5.5.1.2.application.process.shtml   (1061 words)

  
 GemStone Smalltalk Object Server
GemStone/S is the state-of-the-art platform for developing, deploying, and managing scalable, high-performance, multi-tier applications based on business objects.
It enables you to log into a relational database, submit queries and updates to the database, read information from a query in GemStone object form, and track modifications to data.
GemStone/S provided the answer, enabling the company to gain an edge in a tough international market.
www.gemstone.com /products/smalltalk   (485 words)

  
 Run-time object-synthesis and transparent client/server updating of distributed objects using a meta server of all ...
whereby a structure of the application database is changed when the server objects and the client objects are updated and whereby the distributed-object client-server application is updated while running.
System for adding attributes to an object at run time in an object oriented computer environment
The Gemstone Object Database Management System, Butterworth et al., Communications of the ACM, Oct. 1991/vol.
www.delphion.com /details?pn=US05920725__   (876 words)

  
 Transparent Persistence | Lambda the Ultimate
Unfortunately, though, this does indeed seem to be what people really want in practice: they want to piecemeal their system in formats that are meaningful in the context of other systems with other design goals and other features, and from that point of view, "orthogonal persistence" is indeed—well—orthogonal: it doesn't solve that problem.
I would argue the opposite: a type system that lets you hide a function's statefulness is weaker in the sense that you cannot fully trust the type system.
The run-time system and compiler of a typical Haskell implementation that implements the various operations of the IO Monad is not verified by Haskell's type system to perform the desired side-effects.
lambda-the-ultimate.org /node/view/526   (8897 words)

  
 Object-Orientation FAQ -- GemStone (Servio)
GemStone is particularly well suited for use in complex multi-user, multi-platform client/server applications.
GemStone release 3.2 and GeODE 2.0 and all language interfaces are available for UNIX workstations and servers from SUN, HP, IBM, Sequent, and DEC.
This is important for maintaining a database system with high availability in a networked workstation environment.
web.bilkent.edu.tr /Online/oofaq/oo-faq-S-8.12.1.3.html   (2462 words)

  
 GIS/EM4 - A flexible object-based software framework for modeling complex systems with interacting natural and societal ...
It is a major challenge to assemble a simulation system that can successfully capture the dynamics of such complex systems, and an even more serious challenge to be able to nimbly adapt such a simulation to shifting and expanding analysis requirements and contexts.
A key outcome of the simulation is expected to be a new level of insight into the ability of such a community to adapt in response to environmental stressors such as droughts and soil erosion.
An ongoing research and development goal at ANL is to be able to more fully automate the DIAS "context management" function, in which ad hoc connections are made between domain objects and simulation models and other applications to meet a user's simulation goals and constraints.
www.colorado.edu /Research/cires/banff/pubpapers/72/index.html   (3566 words)

  
 Object-Oriented Database Management Systems   (Site not responding. Last check: )
Focuses on development of language systems that incorporate a notion of data persistence.
We present a manifesto for the future direction of data and database management systems.
This is a manifesto regarding the future of data and database management systems.
www-2.cs.cmu.edu /People/clamen/OODBMS   (355 words)

  
 SEAKEYS/C-MAN Data Management Report, February 13, 1998
Data acquired daily are also placed automatically into this system, which now has a user interface for the downloading of any parameter from any station for any period of time (1992 to present).
Currently this system only works from a PC and not from a Web connection; however, we are working on that for the near future.
The systems analysis and design of the SEAKEYS/C-MAN data acquisition and reporting system was published in the Proceedings of the 8th International Coral Reef Sympostium (1997).
www.coral.noaa.gov /sferpm/hendee/jch-19980213.html   (351 words)

  
 Opportunities for disruption in the OLTP database management market (deck-clearing post #2) | DBMS2 -- DataBase ...
DBMS2 — DataBase Management System Services»Blog Archive » Oracle, Tangosol, objects, caching, and disruption on March 25th, 2007 3:19 pm
GemStone systems (known for its Object database) now offers a distributed, active, memory oriented data infrastructure for very high performance data sharing.
Instead of being passive like the traditional relational database, it combines features in pub-sub messaging, databases and continuous querying (stream data processing) in a “data fabric”.
www.dbms2.com /2007/02/27/oltp-database-management-system-disruption   (706 words)

  
 Object-Oriented Databases
Object-oriented databases provide a unifying paradigm that allows data modeling to be applied uniformly to the database.
An object-oriented database system must satisfy two criteria: it should be a DBMS, and it should be an object-oriented system.
The challenge with relational database systems is that they require the application developer to force an information model into tables where relationships between entities are defined by values.
www.scis.nova.edu /~lloydjam/week09.html   (1837 words)

  
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The authors report on the implementation of a database supporting map assembly at the University of Michigan Human Genome Center.
They have implemented an active object-oriented database called Crystal on top of the commercial GemStone database management system.
Crystal provides inferencing capabilities that are used to deduce the order of DNA segments in a physical map assembly tool.
www.cse.ogi.edu /class/cse569/Assignments/P1-AnnotatedBib.doc   (222 words)

  
 OODBMS-2: 4.5: GemStone   (Site not responding. Last check: )
GemStone is an object-oriented database product developed and marketed by Servio Corporation, 2085 Hamilton Ave., Suite 200, San Jose, CA 94125, (408) 879-6200.
C++ compilers from Sun, HP, Centerline, Sequent, and IBM are compatible with the C++ interface for GemStone.
An evaluation of GemStone is provided in Section 5.5 of this report.
www.dacs.dtic.mil /techs/oodbms2/gemstone.shtml   (424 words)

  
 Java Skyline: Database
O/R Mapping and database engineering tools generally obtain metadata in some form - by reverse-engineering from the database, from XML, or from Java classes.
Defines a style of DDL where database objects all have object IDs and there is a Factory classes structure that store/restore information to/from database.
Database access without coding SQL or major source code changes; implements vast majority of JDO final spec - including query filters and maps supports JDBC 1.x, 2, JBoss, WebLogic, a number of RDBMSs.
www.javaskyline.com /database.html   (2410 words)

  
 Object-Oriented Database Management Systems
We present a manifesto for the future direction of data and database management systems.
This is a manifesto regarding the future of data and database management systems.
newsgroup, which is devoted to discussion of object-oriented languages and systems.
www.cs.cmu.edu /People/clamen/OODBMS   (355 words)

  
 5 Minute Briefing: Data Center - June 30, 2008
Ensembles provide better systems integration, simplicity and a better overall management structure, and will provide the foundation for a cost-effective, resilient, secure, energy-efficient and dynamic data center.
The most significant aspect of the new release is "the ability to bring in systems that would not be what you would consider to be conventional or traditional interfaces," Rob Morris, chief strategy officer for GT Software, told 5 Minute Briefing.
Database Trends and Applications magazine chronicles the best in data management technology, features cutting-edge market research and trend analysis, and reports on successful data management, data integration, and enterprise application implementations.
www.dbta.com /e-newsletters/fmbdc=5_Minute_Briefing_Data_Center/current.html   (2220 words)

  
 References
ODE (Object Database and Environment): The language and the data model.
Object and file management in the EXODUS extensible database system.
Proceedings of the ACM International Conference on Management of Data, Portland, Oregon, June 1989.
www.cs.purdue.edu /homes/hosking/590D/info/node2.html   (1700 words)

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