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ROOST

A relational object oriented system

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Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms (FODO 1989)

Part of the book series: Lecture Notes in Computer Science ((LNCS,volume 367))

Abstract

This paper presents ROOST, an object oriented data model for relational databases. ROOST defines objects as multi-level hierarchical aggregations of base relations, views, and/or other objects. It is a new, rather conservative approach, that is substantially different than those that follow the object oriented programming language approach. ROOST was designed to be easily portable to existing relational database systems. An object is structured as a hierarchical aggregation of subcomponents. Subcomponents are tables which are the media of relational databases, or other objects. The model includes languages for creating, manipulating, updating, and browsing objects. The proposed object model has been implemented on top of a relational database system.

This research was sponsored partially by the National Science Foundation under Grant IRI-8719458 and the University of Maryland Institutes for Advanced Computer Studies.

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  1. Department of Computer Science, 20742, College Park, Maryland

    Nick Roussopoulos & Hyun Soon Kim

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Witold Litwin Hans-Jörg Schek

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Roussopoulos, N., Kim, H.S. (1989). ROOST. In: Litwin, W., Schek, HJ. (eds) Foundations of Data Organization and Algorithms. FODO 1989. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 367. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-51295-0_145

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