Database Server Technology

Database Server Technology

Welcome to these pages on Database Server Technology. This is not yet an official part of the web, merely a few pointers to information I find interesting. These are some attempts at creating a subject structure.

This page contains the following sections:

Books

Cattell: Object Data Management
Ceri, Pelagatti: Distributed Databases, Principles & Systems
Includes a chapter on IBM's R* project.
Date: An Introduction to Database Systems
A classical introduction to relational databases. Focuses on use, not implementation, of database servers.
Goscinski: Distributed Operating Systems, The Logical Design
Discusses various aspects of distributed systems, that can be as relevant to distributed databases as to distributed operating systems.
Özsu, Valduriez: Principles of Distributed Database Systems
Rijsbergen: Information Retrieval
The author is a professor at Glasgow University.
Wiederholt: Database Design

Events

VLDB'94
20th International Conference on Very Large Databases. Santiago, Chile, September 12-15, 1994. Conference announcement and call for papers.

Organizations

ACM SIGMOD
The ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data keeps pointers to database publication servers, and free database software.

People, Research groups

IDOM is an EU effort to coordinate various projects in the field of wide area information systems, which might have intersectoins with database server technology.

DBIS, Hamburg University, Germany
The Databases and Information Systems Group is part of Informatik.Uni-Hamburg.DE.
Database research group, U.C. Berkeley, California
Both Ingres and Postgres were created by the Database Research Group at the University of California at Berkeley (UCB). They run a combined FTP and WWW server.
DOLLs, University of Twente, the Netherlands
Databases for Object-oriented and Logical Languages (DOLL) is a sub-group of the Information Systems Workgroup at CS.UTwente.NL.
GTE Lab's Distributed Object Computing Dept.
Ikeda Laboratory, Chiba, Japan
This laboratory is headed by professor Hiroaki Ikeda, and is part of the Dept of EE at Chiba University in Japan. Their WWW page has lots of useful pointers to information on international standardization.

Periodicals (journals and magazines)

Projects and existing implementations

A list of free database system implementations is posted regularly to several newsgroups, and is also available by FTP.

Amos
Prototype memory-resident object-relational DBMS. Based on Iris. Developed at the CAELAB division of IDA.LiU.SE, headed by Professor Tore Risch.
DB2
Commercial relational DBMS.
DBPL
DBPL is a "type-complete modular database programming language". Developed at DBIS at Informatik.Uni-Hamburg.DE.
Informix
Commercial relational DBMS.
Ingres
Prototype relational DBMS. Developed at CS.Berkeley.EDU, headed by Professor Michael Stonebraker. A commercial version also exists.
Iris
Prototype object-relational DBMS. Developed at Hewlett-Packard.
LINCKS
Prototype object-centered database system. Developed at IISLAB division of IDA.LiU.SE, headed by Lin Padgham. Source code available under GNU GPL. The latest known version is release 2.1.
Linux Postgres
Kai Petzke <wpp@marie.physik.tu-berlin.de> at Physik.TU-Berlin.DE ported Postgres 4.1 and 4.2 (see below) to Linux, the free 386 UNIX clone. Now he is involved in modifying and extending it. There is a mailing list and an FTP site for this work.
Montage
Commercial object-relational DBMS. Based on Postgres. Developed and marketed by Montage Software Inc, headed by Michael Stonebraker.
Open ODB
Commercial object-relational DBMS. Based on Iris. Developed and marketed by Hewlett-Packard.
Oracle
Commercial relational DBMS.
Postgres
Prototype object-relational DBMS. Developed at CS.Berkeley.EDU, headed by Professor Michael Stonebraker.
Sequoia 2000
Developed by the Database research group at CS.Berkeley.EDU.
Sybase
Commercial relational DBMS.
Tycoon
Typed Communicating Objects in Open Environments is a prototype "polymorphic persistent programming environment". Developed at DBIS at Informatik.Uni-Hamburg.DE.

Standards

sql
An FTP archive with some SQL-related stuff (at lu.se).

Subject tree

USENET Newsgroups

alt.education.bangkok.databases
de.comp.databases
This newsgroup is local to Germany, but is also distributed to Lysator.LiU.SE.
comp.databases.informix
Discussions related to products from Informix.
comp.databases.ingres
Discussions about both versions of Ingres.
comp.databases.ms-access
comp.databases.object
Discussions on object-oriented and object-relational databases.
comp.databases.paradox
comp.databases.pick
comp.databases.rdb
comp.databases.theory
Discussions not related to specific implementations.
comp.databases.xbase.fox
comp.databases.xbase.misc
comp.sys.mac.databases
vmsnet.databases.rdb

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Last updated on April 25, 1994. Major contributors to this and the following pages are Lars Aronsson <aronsson@lysator.liu.se> and David Byers <byers@lysator.liu.se>. Please send your comments.