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Migration in object‐oriented database systems—A practical approach
Author(s) -
Huemer C.,
Kappel G.,
Vieweg S.
Publication year - 1995
Publication title -
software: practice and experience
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.437
H-Index - 70
eISSN - 1097-024X
pISSN - 0038-0644
DOI - 10.1002/spe.4380251002
Subject(s) - database testing , computer science , database , database design , database schema , database model , spatiotemporal database , view , database theory , relational database , database tuning , intelligent database , distributed database , data administration , object (grammar) , physical data model , object oriented programming , database application , artificial intelligence , programming language
Object‐oriented database systems are designed to meet the requirements of advanced database applications such as computer‐integrated manufacturing. These requirements may evolve in the course of time and may require the migration of the database application from one object‐oriented database system to another. Traditional migration approaches for relational database systems fail when applied to object‐oriented database systems. The goal of this paper is to fill this gap. The paper describes a framework for the migration of object‐oriented database applications. Our approach is based on a detailed analysis of the involved database systems, of the application's database requirements, and of the resources available for the database migration. We illustrate our framework by means of a case study, which is migrating an electronic planning board system from the object‐oriented database system ONTOS to ObjectStore.