Other Database Information
Modified: $Date: 1995/02/09 00:29:11 $
This page contains information about database server and
TP monitor technology. It does not address front-end/end-user
issues at all. (There would too much material for me to handle...)
For the most part, the only thing you need to know about is the
ACM-SIGMOD home page.
Another place to look (especially if you're on the European side of
the pond) is the
database server technology
linkpage at Linkoping University. Other on-line resources include:
- Database-Related Standards
-
TPC:
Transaction Processing Council information, including the
TPC A, B and C benchmarks
and a
FAQ
produced by someone at DEC.
-
SQL:
The unofficial
SQL Standards Homepage
is a good place to start.
There is a ton of stuff about SQL2 and SQL3
here
(be aware that SQL3 is very much a work-in-progress!). If you visit
the top level of that server, be sure to read ``readme.txt.'' The
more generally interesting documents include:
-
The
SQL2 draft standard
and working group documents. (The final version of the SQL2 standard
are available from the usual sources for standards.)
-
The
FIPS-127
(Federal Information Processing Standard) documents, including NIST
compliance information. FIPS-127 adopts SQL2 as a US government
standard.
-
Current ISO working group
SQL3 draft standard
-
Current ISO working group
SQL/MM
(multimedia) extensions.
If you can't get to the NIST server, copies are archived at
this site
and at
DEC SRC,
but these copies are usually older and incomplete.
-
Object stuff:
A good starting-point is the
OO distributed systems page at GMD.
Other resources include:
-
CORBA:
Revision 1.1
of OMG's Common Object Request Broker Architecture specification.
Note that Revision 2.0 is due out shortly.
(Also, OMG says that
you should pay
for the most up-to-date documents.)
Other CORBA-related documents are archived by the
OMG
and mirrored in many places, such as
Zurich
and
Singapore.
-
ODMG-93:
Some general information about the Object Data Management Group's
ODMG-93
effort.
-
The ANSI/X3H7 (object information systems) committee's object model
features matrix,
``intended for X3H7 use in analyzing object model interoperability
issues.''
-
Storage stuff:
-
GIS pointers
- Database Research Centers
NOTE: this information will only be maintained as long as it does not
appear on the equivalent
ACM-SIGMOD page.
The ACM-SIGMOD archive also has a linkpage of
database publications,
though it doesn't yet have a direct link to the US
CS technical report project.
- Vendor Information
NOTE: this does not constititute endorsement of any vendor or their
products; it is simply a list of on-line resources for these systems.
I am a UNIX bigot, so I don't list anyone who only has a PC product,
and iron vendors are only listed if they sell their own database
software.
-
Database Servers
You may also be interested in Dan Druker's RDBMS server
feature matrix.
-
TP Monitors
Click
here
to visit the UCB DBMS Research Group home page.
Paul M. Aoki
// graduate student // aoki@CS.Berkeley.EDU
