Here's a thorough introduction to the latest developments in database systems design presented from an applications point of view. Featuring contributions from well-known experts in the field, this new book pays special attention to issues raised by new trends in database design, and how these developments affect the programmer and database administrator. The authors and editors present concepts in an intuitive and motivating manner, making extensive use of examples, and including lists of references for additional study with each chapter.
Database management is attracting wide interest in both academic and industrial contexts. New application areas such as CAD/CAM, geographic information systems, and multimedia are emerging. The needs of these application areas are far more complex than those of conventional business applications. The purpose of this book is to bring together a set of current research issues that addresses a broad spectrum of topics related to database systems and applications. The book is divided into four parts: - object-oriented databases, - temporal/historical database systems, - query processing in database systems, - heterogeneity, interoperability, open system architectures, multimedia database systems.
"This reference expands the field of database technologies through four-volumes of in-depth, advanced research articles from nearly 300 of the world's leading professionals"--Provided by publisher.
The database field has experienced a rapid and incessant growth since the development of relational databases. The progress in database systems and applications has produced a diverse landscape of specialized technology areas that have often become the exclusive domain of research specialists. Examples include active databases, temporal databases, object-oriented databases, deductive databases, imprecise reasoning and queries, and multimedia information systems. This book provides a systematic introduction to and an in-depth treatment of these advanced database areas. It supplies practitioners and researchers with authoritative coverage of recent technological advances that are shaping the future of commercial database systems and intelligent information systems. Advanced Database Systems was written by a team of six leading specialists who have made significant contributions to the development of the technology areas covered in the book. Benefiting from the authors' long experience teaching graduate and professional courses, this book is designed to provide a gradual introduction to advanced research topics and includes many examples and exercises to support its use for individual study, desk reference, and graduate classroom teaching.
Introductory, theory-practice balanced text teaching the fundamentals of databases to advanced undergraduates or graduate students in information systems or computer science.
The objective of this book is to address the advanced and emerging topics of modern database systems starting from the inception. This book is developed as a text book for the compulsory subject Database System / Database Management System / Advanced Database System of B. Tech/B.E, M.C.A and other courses of Computer Science and Engineering, Software Engineering and Information Technology. In this book, total 17 chapters have been included, namely, Introduction to Database Management System, Fundamentals of Database Management System, Conceptual Data Modeling, The Relational Data Model, Normalization, Relational Query Languages, Transaction Management & Concurrency Control, Database Recovery and Security, Query Processing, Parallel Database System, Distributed Database System - Concepts & Design, Object-Oriented Databases, Spatial Database System, Temporal and Statistical Database Systems, Data Warehousing, Data Mining, and Cloud Computing. Recent AICTE approved syllabus of B.Tech/B.E and MCA has been consulted for preparation of the content of the book. This book is intended for those who are professionally interested in advanced database concepts including students and teachers of computer science, software engineering and information technology, researchers, application developers, and analysts.
The fourth international conference on Extending Data Base Technology was held in Cambridge, UK, in March 1994. The biannual EDBT has established itself as the premier European database conference. It provides an international forum for the presentation of new extensions to database technology through research, development, and application. This volume contains the scientific papers of the conference. Following invited papers by C.M. Stone and A. Herbert, it contains 31 papers grouped into sections on object views, intelligent user interface, distributed information servers, transaction management, information systems design and evolution, semantics of extended data models,accessing new media, join algorithms, query optimization, and multimedia databases.
Active database systems enhance traditional database functionality with powerful rule-processing capabilities, providing a uniform and efficient mechanism for many database system applications. Among these applications are integrity constraints, views, authorization, statistics gathering, monitoring and alerting, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, and workflow management. This significant collection focuses on the most prominent research projects in active database systems. The project leaders for each prototype system provide detailed discussions of their projects and the relevance of their results to the future of active database systems. Features: A broad overview of current active database systems and how they can be extended and improved A comprehensive introduction to the core topics of the field, including its motivation and history Coverage of active database (trigger) capabilities in commercial products Discussion of forthcoming standards
