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Constructing a Domain-Specific DBMS using a Persistent Object System

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Constructing a light-weight domain-specific database management system (DBMS) is one way “′to design applications that effectively exploit… persistent technology”. We have implemented a domain-specific DBMS, LabBase, on top of the ObjectStore persistent object system (which is basically a persistent C++). LabBase is tailored to the application domain of laboratory information systems: it is designed to record experimental steps and results in a high-throughput laboratory production line—for example, one of those operated as part of the Whitehead/MIT Genome Center’s genome-mapping projects.

This work was supported by funds from the U.S. National Institutes of Health, National Center for Human Genome Research, grant number P50 HG00098.

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    Steve Rozen, Lincoln Stein & Nathan Goodman

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  1. Department of Computing Science, University of Glasgow, 8-17 Lilybank Gardens, Glasgow, G12 8RZ, UK

    Malcolm Atkinson BA, MA, PhD, Dip.Comp.Sci., FRSE

  2. Department of Computer Science and Engineering, Oregon Graduate Institute, Portland, Oregon, 97291-1000, USA

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  3. Université de Paris I — Panthéon — Sorbonne, 12 Place du Panthéon, 75005, Paris, France

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Rozen, S., Stein, L., Goodman, N. (1995). Constructing a Domain-Specific DBMS using a Persistent Object System. In: Atkinson, M., Maier, D., Benzaken, V. (eds) Persistent Object Systems. Workshops in Computing. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-2122-0_41

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