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Flattening the Metamodel for Object Databases

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A metamodel definition presents some important issues in the con- struction of an object database management system, whose rich data model inevitably increases the metamodel complexity. The required features of an object database metamodel are investigated. Roles of a metamodel in an object- oriented database management system are presented and compared to the pro- posal defined in the ODMG standard of object-oriented database management systems. After outlining the metamodel definition included in the standard, its main drawbacks are identified and several changes to the ODMG metamodel definition are suggested. The biggest conceptual change concerns flattening the metamodel to reduce complexity and to support extendibility.

This work is partly supported by the EU 5th Framework project ICONS (Intelligent Content Management System), IST-2001-32429.

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  1. Polish-Japanese Institute of Information Technology, Warsaw, Poland

    Piotr Habela & Kazimierz Subieta

  2. School of Computer Applications, Dublin City University, Dublin, Ireland

    Mark Roantree

  3. Institute of Computer Science PAS, Warsaw, Poland

    Kazimierz Subieta

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  1. Department of Informatics, Aristotle University, 54006, Thessaloniki, Greece

    Yannis Manolopoulos

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Slovak University of Technology, Ilkovicova 3, 81219, Bratislava, Slovakia

    Pavol Návrat

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Habela, P., Roantree, M., Subieta, K. (2002). Flattening the Metamodel for Object Databases. In: Manolopoulos, Y., Návrat, P. (eds) Advances in Databases and Information Systems. ADBIS 2002. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 2435. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-45710-0_21

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