SOFTWARE COMPONENTS FOR OBJECT-ORIENTED DATABASE SYSTEMS

Genesis is a software system generator for database management systems that relies exclusively on as-is large scale component reuse. We review the general model of software components on which Genesis is based and discuss component libraries for relational database systems that we have implemented. We then explain how we have evolved Genesis and its libraries to be able to synthesize object-oriented database systems. We study a subproblem of creating “self-tuning” software systems by examining the performance of selected components for object-oriented database systems.