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An incompatibility of object-oriented application code and relational database engine often causes performance problems, known as Impedance Mismatch, which negatively affect business-critical application functions. The incompatibility can also over-complicate application design and increase the costs of development.
We address these issues, applying a concept of the API contracts to the interaction between the application and the database. We introduce a new technique providing for the transfer of complex objects rather than low-level records. We describe the implementation of the proposed solution in industrial settings and show how suggested techniques streamline the application development, at the same time providing significant performance gains.
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Dombrovskaya, H., Czaplewski, J., Novikov, B. (2020). Connecting Galaxies: Bridging the Gap Between Databases and Applications. In: Chatzigeorgiou, A., et al. SOFSEM 2020: Theory and Practice of Computer Science. SOFSEM 2020. Lecture Notes in Computer Science(), vol 12011. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-38919-2_54
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