Re-Engineering a Relational Database System to Produce a Prototype Object-Oriented Geophysical Database System

摘要

This document provides a description of (1) the design and development ot aprototype object-oriented geophysical database system, and (2) the development of a reengineering process for mapping from an existing relational database to an object-oriented database. Although it is widely recognized that the object-oriented approach has many advantages over traditional relational technology for scientific databases, one cannot ignore the large investments that have been made