Federating Object-Oriented and Relational Databases:
The IRO-DB Experience
Speaker: Georges Gardarin
Universite de Versailles
StQuentin, France
Abstract
From the beginning of 1994 to the end of 1996, the IRO-DB ESPRIT project has
developed tools for accessing in an integrated way relational and
object-oriented databases, and for designing and maintaining integrated
applications on large federations of heterogeneous databases. IRO-DB is
based on the ODMG pivot object model, and provides an OQL/OML C++ interface to
users on a federation of relational and object-oriented databases. This
talk summarizes the main problems and choices done during the system
design, describes the IRO-DB architecture and components, presents the
project achievements, and gives a synthesis of the lessons learned
during the project development. It also introduces future plans for the
system.