[comp.object] OODB Architecture

yms@cis.ufl.edu (Yuh-Ming Shyy) (06/14/91)

We are designing an  architecture  for  object-oriented  database
based on a modular open architecture and client-server model. All
the communications between each  module  (such  as  object  query
manager,  rule  manager,  and  a  database  programming  language
manager) will be handled by UNIX system message passing. The  ad-
vantage  is  that for each application program, we do not have to
compile it and link together with all the other DBMS modules.  We
are  wondering if there is anyone taking the similar approach and
has some experience in building such an  architecture  (e.g.,  is
this  idea  feasible, if not, what is the problem?).  Any comment
will be highly appreciated and we will post a  summary  (provided
that we receive significant number of response). Thanks.

Yuh-Ming Shyy 
Database Systems R&D Center 
University of Florida

yms@reef.cis.ufl.edu