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The Jupiter system: A prototype for multidatabase interoperability

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Directions in Databases (BNCOD 1994)

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The goal of the Jupiter system is to provide interoperability services to a federation of autonomous and possibly heterogeneous database systems. The participants are free to withdraw at any time with the result that global integration of the participant schemas is not seen as a feasible solution. Our solution is to provide a multidatabase layer and a suitable interoperator language to allow information providers to construct loosely-coupled interoperable autonomous information systems. The enormous problems faced by information system providers are compounded by the difficulty of integrating key applications which have been developed using traditional methods with applications developed using, for example, object-oriented technology. A goal of our research is to address the area of multidatabase interoperability and to this end we have constructed the Jupiter prototype.

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  1. Dublin City University, Republic of Ireland

    John Murphy

  2. Trinity College Dublin, Republic of Ireland

    Jane Grimson

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Murphy, J., Grimson, J. (1994). The Jupiter system: A prototype for multidatabase interoperability. In: Bowers, D.S. (eds) Directions in Databases. BNCOD 1994. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 826. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-58235-5_44

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