Data Base Portals: A New Application Program Interface

Michael Stonebraker and Lawrence A. Rowe

EECS Department, University of California, Berkeley

Technical Report No. UCB/CSD-83-149

1983

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This paper describes the design and one proposed implementation of a new application program interface to a database management system. Programs which browse through a database making ad-hoc updates are not well served by conventional embedding of DBMS commands in programming languages. A new embedding is suggested which overcomes all deficiencies. This construct, called a portal, allows a program to request a collection Of tuples at once and supports novel concurrency control schemes.

BibTeX citation:

@techreport{Stonebraker:CSD-83-149,
    Author= {Stonebraker, Michael and Rowe, Lawrence A.},
    Title= {Data Base Portals: A New Application Program Interface},
    Year= {1983},
    Month= {Nov},
    Url= {http://www2.eecs.berkeley.edu/Pubs/TechRpts/1983/6341.html},
    Number= {UCB/CSD-83-149},
    Abstract= {This paper describes the design and one proposed implementation of a new application program interface to a database management system. Programs which browse through a database making ad-hoc updates are not well served by conventional embedding of DBMS commands in programming languages. A new embedding is suggested which overcomes all deficiencies.  This construct, called a portal, allows a program to request a collection Of tuples at once and supports novel concurrency control schemes.},
}

EndNote citation:

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