Integrating a Relational Database System into VODAK Using Its Metaclass Concept

TitleIntegrating a Relational Database System into VODAK Using Its Metaclass Concept
Publication TypeTechnical Report
Year of Publication1992
AuthorsKlas, W., Fischer G., & Aberer K.
Other Numbers772
Abstract

This paper presents a specific approach of integrating a relational database system into a federated database system. The underlying database integration process consists of three steps: first, the external database systems have to be connected to the integrated database system environment and the external data models have to be mapped into a canonical data model. This step is often called syntactic transformation including structural enrichment and leads to component schemas for each external DBMS. Second, the resulting schemas from the first step are used to construct export schemas which are then integrated into global, individual schemas or views. In this paper we focus on the first step for relational databases, i.e., the connection of a relational database system and the mapping of the relational model into a canonical data model. We take POSTGRES as the relational database system and the object-oriented federated database system VODAK as the integration platform which provides the open, object-oriented data model as the canonical data model for the integration. We show different variations of mapping the relational model. By exploiting the metaclass concept provided by VML we show how to tailor VML such that the canonical data model meets the requirements of integrating POSTGRES into the global database system VODAK in an efficient way.

URLhttp://www.icsi.berkeley.edu/pubs/techreports/tr-92-067.pdf
Bibliographic Notes

ICSI Technical Report TR-92-067

Abbreviated Authors

W. Klas, G. Fischer, and K. Aberer

ICSI Publication Type

Technical Report