1. DATAPLEX: An Access to Heterogenous Distributed Databases.
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Chin-Wan Chung and Sibley, Edgar H.
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DATABASE management ,INFORMATION retrieval ,RELATIONAL databases ,SQL ,MANAGEMENT information systems ,PROGRAMMING languages - Abstract
This article presents information related to DATAPLEX that is a heterogeneous distributed database management system being developed by General Motors Research Laboratories. The key concept of its approach is to use the relational model as a common data model and the Structured Query Language (SQL) as a standard query language. The architecture of DATAPLEX consists of fourteen functionally-independent modules. This architecture is based on the relational model of data. Different data models used by unlike database systems structure data differently. This module identifies SQL statements in the application and records an SQL transaction in the transaction log as an attempted transaction. The SQL Parser scans and parses SQL statements to check syntactic errors. It checks whether a query references correct names of relations and attributes. It transforms a query that references global views to a query that references only stored data objects and local views. The Distributed Query Decomposer decomposes a distributed retrieval query into local queries and user location queries which merge local results.
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- 1990
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