scholarly journals The GSC-I and GSC-II Databases: An Object-Oriented Approach

1998 ◽  
Vol 179 ◽  
pp. 474-477 ◽  
Author(s):  
G. Greene ◽  
B. McLean ◽  
B. Lasker ◽  
D. Wolfe ◽  
R. Morbidelli ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Relational Databases ◽  
Large Scale ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Joint Effort ◽  
Current Generation ◽  
Object Oriented Approach ◽  
Guide Star ◽  
Space Telescope Science Institute ◽  
Object Oriented Database ◽  
Oriented Approach

The original GSC-I (Jenkner et al. 1990) which contains 25 million entries and requires approximately 1GB of storage was at the edge of technological capability at the time catalogue construction began in 1984. At that time, a custom coded database was built since the relational databases of the era were unsuited to the HST-specific access requirements. A second generation GSC is now being constructed (Lasker et al. 1995), with an estimated 10 billion entries and a size of 2 Terabytes. The current generation of object-oriented database (OODB) systems are more suited to the needs of large astronomical catalogues and are being adopted by many large-scale projects. In a joint effort between the Space Telescope Science Institute and Osservatorio Astronomico di Torino, we are currently designing such an OODB for the Guide Star Catalogues and are implementing a prototype using the GSC-I data.

Object-Relational Modeling

2009 ◽  
pp. 162-170
Author(s):  
Jaroslav Zendulka
Keyword(s):  
Relational Database ◽  
Relational Databases ◽  
Conceptual Modeling ◽  
Object Oriented ◽  
Database Systems ◽  
Object Relational ◽  
The Difference ◽  
Object Oriented Approach ◽  
Entity Relationship ◽  
Oriented Approach

Modeling techniques play an important role in the development of database applications. Well-known entity-relationship modeling and its extensions have become a widely-accepted approach for relational database conceptual design. An object-oriented approach has brought a new view of conceptual modeling. A class as a fundamental concept of the object-oriented approach encapsulates both data and behavior, whereas traditional relational databases are able to store only data. In the early 1990s, the difference between the relational and object-oriented (OO) technologies, which were, and are still used together to build complex software systems, was labeled the object-relational impedance mismatch (Ambler, 2003). The object-oriented approach and the need of new application areas to store complex data have greatly influenced database technology since that time. Besides appearance of object-oriented database systems, which fully implement objectoriented paradigm in a database environment (Catell et al., 2003), traditional relational database management systems become object-relational (Stonebraker & Brown, 1999). The most recent versions of the SQL standard, SQL: 1999 (Melton & Simon (2001) and SQL: 2003 (Eisenberg et al., 2004), introduced object-relational features to the standard and leading database producers have already released packages which incorporate them.

Object-oriented approach

IEE Review ◽  
1990 ◽  
Vol 36 (9) ◽  
pp. 338
Author(s):  
Stephen Wilson
Keyword(s):  
Object Oriented ◽  
Object Oriented Approach ◽  
Oriented Approach
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