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This paper describes the design and implementation of the first version of the O 2 object-oriented database system. The Altaïr project is currently designing and implementing a complete environment for developing data intensive applications. As a first step, we have implemented a quick prototype of an object-oriented DBMS. We report here on this implementation. The first part of the paper describes the system interface as seen by the application programmer, the second part describes the architecture of the system.
Altaïr is a consortium funded by IN2 (the computer subsidiary of the Intertechnique group), INRIA (the French National Institute of Research in Computer and Control) and LRI (the Computer Science Laboratory of the University of Parix XI). The consortium started in September of 86 and is created for 5 years.
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Bancilhon, F. et al. (1988). The design and implementation of O 2, an object-oriented database system. In: Dittrich, K.R. (eds) Advances in Object-Oriented Database Systems. OODBS 1988. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 334. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-50345-5_1
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