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DATABASE SYSTEMS - 10pCourse No. 2AD235

Spring 2002

A second course on development of database systems

Kjell OrsbornUppsala Database Laboratory

Department of Information Technology, Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden


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Introduction to Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Databases

Kjell Orsborn

Uppsala Database Laboratory,Department of Information Technology,

Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden


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Talk Outline

• Some General DBMS Concepts– limitations of traditional DBMSs

• History of DBMSs

• Object-Oriented Databases

• Object-Relational Databases

• Differences

• Standards


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Database Design

• Database Design:– How to translate subset of reality into data representations in the database.

• Schema:– A description of properties of data in a database (i.e. a meta-database)

• Data Model:– A set of building blocks (data abstractions) to represent reality.

Each DBMS supports one Data Model.The most common one is the Relational Data Model where data is represented in tables.NOTICE: E.g. CAD people use the word ‘Data Model’ instead of ‘Schema’

• Conceptual Data Model:– A very high level and user-oriented data model (often graphical).

CDM not necessarily representable in DBMS or computer!Most common CDM is Entity-Relationship (ER) data model.But also Extended ER models are common

• Conceptual Schema Design– Produce a DBMS independent Conceptual Schema in the Conceptual Data Model


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Extended Entity-Relationship Diagram


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Logical Database Design• Logical Database Design:

– How to translate Conceptual Schemas in the conceptual data model (e.g. ER-schemas)to a Conceptual Schema in the DBMS data model (e.g relational tables)

• Logical Database Design for the Relational Data Model includes:– Key Identification: What attributes are used to identify rows in a

table?– Normalization: Table decomposition to solve update problems,

normal forms

• PROBLEM: Semantics may disappear or be blurred when data is translated to less expressive data model and normalized


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Physical Database Design• Physical Database Design:

– Physical representation of the database schema optimized with respect to the access patterns of critical applications.

• Indexes:– permit fast matching of records in table satisfying certain search conditions.

– The index structures are closely related to the internal physical representations of the DBMS.

– Indexes can speed up execution considerably, as well as storing data usually accessed together in the same table.

– Indexes permit the database to scale, i.e. the access times grow much slower than the database size.

• PROBLEM: New applications may require data and index structures that are not supported by the DBMS. (e.g. calendars, numerical data, geographical data, data exchange formats, etc.)


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The ANSI/SPARC three-schema Architecture

• Achieves Data Independence


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Data Independence• External View:

– Mapping Conceptual Schema --> subset of the database for a particular (group of) users.

• Data Independence:– The capability to change the database schema without having to change applications.

NOTE: Data Independence is very important since databases continuously change!

• Logical Data Independence:– The capability to change conceptual schema without having to change applications and interfaces to

views.E.g.: create a new table, add a column to a table, or split a table into two tables

• Physical Data Independence:– The capability to change the physical schema without having to change applications and logical schema

(E.g. add/drop indexes, change data formats, etc.)

• PROBLEM: Application programs still often have data dependencies, e.g. to map relational database tables to application object structures.


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Database Manipulation• Query Language:

– Originally a QL could only specify more or less complex database searches.Now the query language (SQL) is a general language for interactions with the database.

• Typical query language operations are:– Searching for records fulfilling certain selection conditions

– Iterating over entire tables applying update operations

– Schema definition and evolution operators

– Object-Oriented Databases have other operations such as create and delete objects

• The user directly or indirectly calls SQL in the following ways:– By running an interpreter that interactively executes SQL commands

– By running an application program that contains calls to Embedded SQL

– By running a graphical Database Browser to navigate through the database. (The browser internally calls embedded SQL)

• PROBLEM: Would like to be able to customize and extend query language for different application areas.


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Views• View:– A view is a mapping from the Conceptual Schema to a subset of the database as seen by a

particular (group of) users.• SQL is a closed query language that maps tables into tables => SQL allows very general views

(derived tables) to be defined as single queries

• Views provide:– External schema

• Each user is given a set of views that map to relevant parts of the database

– Logical data independence• When schema is modified views mapping new to old schema can be defined

– Encapsulation• Views hide details of physical table structure

– Authorization• The DBA can assign different authorization privileges to views of

different users

• NOTICE: Views provide logical data independence.


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Evolution of Database Technology

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1960Hierarchical(IMS)

Trees

1970Network model(CODASYL)

Complex data structures

1980Relational model(e.g. ORACLE)

Tables

19901st Generation OODB(e.g. Objectivity)

OO data structures

1997Object Realtional DBMS(e.g. SQL99)

Object model


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New DBMS Applications (for OODBMSs)• Classical DBMS:

– Administrative applications, e.g. Banking (ATMs)

• Properties:– Very large structured data volumes

– Very many small Transactions On-line (High transaction rates)

– Occasional batch programs

– High Security/Consistency

• New Needs for Engineering, Scientific databases, etc.:– Extensibility (on all levels)

– Better performance

– Expressability (e.g. Object-Orientation needed)

– Tight PL Interfaces

– Long transactions (work in ‘sand box’)


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New DBMS Applications (cont. ...)

Problem areas:

• CASE Computer Aided Software Engineering

• CAD Computer Aided Design

• CAM Computer Aided Manufacturing

• OIS Office Information Systems

• Multi-media databases

• Scientific Applications

• Hypertext databases (WWW)


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Object-Oriented Databases

Problems with using RDBMSs for OO applications

• Complex mapping from OO conceptual model to relations

• Complex mapping => complex programs and queries

• Complex programs => maintenance problems

• Complex programs => reliability problems

• Complex queries => database query optimizer may be very slow

• Application vulnerable to schema changes

• Performance


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• First generation ODBs

• Extend OO programming language with DBMS primitives– E.g. C++, SmallTalk, Java

– Allow persistent data structures in C++ programs

– Navigate through database using C++ primitives (as CODASYL)

– An object store for C++, SmallTalk, Java, etc.

• Several products out, e.g.:– Objectivity, Versant, ObjectStore, Gemstone, Poet , PJama, O2


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• Pros and cons:+Long transactions with checkin/checkout model (sand box)+Always same language (C++)+High efficiency (but only for checked-out data)- Primitive ‘query languages’ (now OQL standard proposed)- No methods in database (all code executes in client, no stored procedures)- Rudimentary data independence (no views)- Limited concurrency- Unsafe, database may crash- Slow for many small transactions (e.g. ATM applications)- May require extensive C++ or Java knowledge


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Object-Oriented DatabasesPersistence

• Integrated with programming language:– E.g. C++ with persistent objects

class PERSON { ... };....{PERSON P; // Local within block... }static PERSON p; // Local for executionpersistent PERSON p; // Exists between program executions

• Pointer swizzling:– Automatic conversion from disk addresses to MM addresses

– References to data structures on disk (OIDs) look like regular C++ pointers!

– Navigational access style.

– Fast when database cached in main-memory of client!

– Preprocessed by OODBMS for convenient extension of C++


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Object-Relational Databases• Object-Relational DBMSs

• Idea:– Extend on RDBMS functionality

– Customized (abstract) data types

– Customized index structures

– Customized query optimizers

– Use declarative query languages, SQL extension (SQL99)

• Extensible DBMS– Object-orientation for abstract data types

– Data blades (data cartridges, data extenders) are database server ‘plug-ins’ that provide:

• User definable index structures

• Cost hints and re-write rules for the query optimizer


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Object-Relational Databases• Pros and cons:

+Migration path to SQL+Views, logical data independence possible+Programming language independence+Full DBMS functionality+Stored procedures, triggers, constraints+High transaction performance by avoiding data shipping+Easy to use declarative queries- Overkill for application needing just a C++ object store- Performance may suffer compared to OODBs for applications needing just an object store- May be very difficult to extend index structures and query optimizers

• Research prototypes: Iris (HP), Postgres (Berkeley), Starburst (IBM)

• Products: Informix, OpenODB (Odapter), DB2NOTE: On-going evolution of 1st gen. products to become more Object-Relational


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• Literature:– M.Stonebraker: Object-relational DBMSs - The next great wave, Morgan-

Kaufmann 1996

• Object-Oriented Manifestos– First generation ODB Manifesto: State-of-the-art OODBs anno 1990

• Atkinsson et al: The OO Database System Manifesto in W.Kim, J-M. Nicolas, S.Nishio (eds): 1st Intl. Conf. on Deductive and OO DatabasesEarly O2

– Object-relational DB Manifesto: Requirements for next generation DBMSs anno 1990

• Stonebraker et. al.: Third-generation Data Base System ManifestoSIGMOD Record, Vol. 20, No. 4, Dec.1991.


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The Manifestos:

• Object identity– E.g. for structure sharing:

Unique OIDs maintained by DBMSE.g. Parent(:tore) = :ulla, Parent(:kalle)=:ulla

• Complex objects– Not only tables, numbers, strings but

sets, bags, lists, and arrays, i.e. non-1NF relations

– E.g. Courses(:tore) = {:c1,:c2,:c3}

• Encapsulation– Simplicity

ModularitySecurity


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Object-Oriented Databases (manifesto cont. ...)• Extensibility

1. User-defined data types and operations on these new datatypes• e.g. datatypes: create type Person, create type Timepoint• e.g. operations. name(:tore), :t2 - :t1, :t2 > :t1, etc.• Both OO and OR allow abstract datatypes through object-orientation

2. Extensions of physical representations (including indexes) and corresponding operations• OO/OR databases allow extensions of physical representations• OR databases allow definition of new indexes

3. Extensions of query processor with optimization algorithms and cost models• OR databases allow extensions of query processing

• Class Hierarchies as modelling tool (both OO/OR)– Classification

• e.g. Student subtype of Person

– Shared properties– Specialization

• Student subtype of Person with extra attributes University, Classes, …


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Object-Oriented Databases (manifesto cont. ...)• Computational completeness

– OR databases: Turing complete ‘query’ language: SQL99 code executes on server– OO databases: C++/Java code with embedded OQL statements executes in client

(web server)

• Persistence– OO databases: transparent access to persistent object by swizzling– OR databases: embedded queries to access persistent objects

• Secondary storage management– OR databases: indexes can be implemented by user (difficult!)

• Concurrency– OO databases: good support for long transactions– OR database: good support for short transactions

• Ad hoc query facility– OO Databases: weak– OR Databases: very strong


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Object-Oriented Databases (manifesto cont. ...)

• Data independence– OO Databases: weak

– OR Databases: strong

• Views– Important for data independence

– Query language required

– Only in OR databases!

• Schema evolution– Relational DBs have it!

– Fully supported in OR databases, primitive in OO databases


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Object Database Standards• Object-Oriented DBMS Standard

– The ODMG standard proposal:• R. Cattell, Ed.: The ODMG-93 Standard for Object Databases, Morgan-

Kaufmann Publishers, San Mateo, California, 1993.

– Includes an Object Data Model– Object Query Language: OQL (different model than SQL99)

• Object-Relational DBMS Standards– The SQL99 (SQL3) standard proposal:

• ISO-Final Draft International Standard (FDIS): ISO/IEC FDIS 9075-2 Database Language SQL

– Very large (>1000 pages)– SQL-92 is subset– Much more than object-orientation included– Triggers, procedural language, OO, error handling, etc.– Certain parts, e.g. standards for procedures, error handling, triggers,

already being included in the new SQL-99 standard.


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Data Exchange FormatsPurpose:• Standardized formats for sending data between systems

– examples: STEP/EXPRESS, PDF, HTML, XML, VRML, MIDI, MP3, etc.

• Engineering domain standard: STEP (standard for exchange of product data) – STEP is an industry wide ISO standard for exchange of mainly

engineering (CAx etc.) data– separates meta-data (schema) and data as for databases– EXPRESS is data model in database terms: i.e. it is the language in which

to define the schema.– STEP models are standardized schemas for different engineering

application areas, e.g. AP209– The exchanged data follows specialized STEP schemas,

e.g. PART 21 most common (XML based too, PART 29)– CAx vendors normally not able to handle EXPRESS schemas– Only PART 29 files following a specific schema, e.g. AP 209


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Data Exchange Formats

• The STEP/EXPRESS and database community sometimes use the same terminology with different meanings:

• Data model:– database world: schema language (i.e. EXPRESS is a data model)

– STEP/EXPRESS world: here a particular schema definition written in EXPRESS

– We therefore avoid the word data model to minimize confusion

• Multi-level schema architecture:– database world: external - conceptual - internal schemas

– STEP/EXPRESS world:• Application protocol, AP (c.f. external schema)

• Integrated resources, IR (c.f. conceptual schema)


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Data Exchange Formats• The XML language

• Extension of HTML to be able to define own tags in web documents,– for example:

<polygon><line><start>1.2 1.3</start></end>2.1 3.4</end></line><line><start>2.1 3.4</start></end>4.6 4.2</end></line></polygon>

• Can also define DTD which is grammar for allowed tags in the documents referencing it

• DTDs are more or less well specified schemas

• On-going work to define real schema language for XML: SMLSchema

• XML not object-oriented - only nested structures


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Introduction to AMOS II and AMOSQL

Kjell Orsborn

Uppsala Database Laboratory,Department of Information Technology,

Uppsala University, Uppsala, Sweden


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Iris/OpenODB/Odapter/AMOS II Object-Relational DBMS

IRIS

• 1st Object-Relational DBMS: Iris research prototype developed in Database Technology Department of HP Laboratories

• Iris’ query language OSQL is a functional query language

• OpenODB/Odapter is the HP product based on Iris

AMOS II

• AMOS II developed at UDBL but has its roots in Iris

• AMOS II runs on PCs under Windows NT/2000 and Solaris

• AMOS II uses query language AMOSQL

• AMOS II system is a fast main-memory DBMS

• AMOS II has single user or optional client-server configuration

• The object part of SQL99 is close to AMOSQL

• Mediator facilities: AMOS II is also a multi-database (mediator) system for integrationg data from other databases


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AMOS II / Iris Data Model

• Basic elements in the AMOS II data model


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AMOS II Data ModelObjects:

• Atomic entities (no attributes)

• Belong to one or more types where one type is the most specific type

• Regard database as set of objects

• Built-in atomic types, literals:– String, Integer, Real, Boolean

• Collection types:– Bag, Vector

• Surrogate types:– objects have unique object identifiers (OIDs)

– explicit creation and deletion

– DBMS manages OIDs

AMOSQL example:– create person instances :tore;


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AMOS II Data Model

Types:

• Classification of objects– groups of OIDs belong to different types

• Multiple inheritance supported

• Organized in a type/subtype Directed Acyclic Graph– defines that OIDs of one type is a subset of OIDs of other types

• Types and functions are objects too– of types “type” and “function”

• Part of the AMOS II type hierarchy:


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AMOS II Data ModelTypes continued…:

• Every object is an instance of at least one type

• A type set is associated with each OID

• Each OID has one most specific type

• Each surrogate type has an extent which is the set of objects having that type in its type set.

• System understands subtype/supertype relationships

• Objects of user-defined types are instances of type Type and subtypes of UserObject

• User defined objects always contains class UserObject in its type set

• Object types may change dynamically (roles)


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AMOS II Data ModelFunctions:

• Define semantics of objects:– properties of objects

– relationships among objects

– views on objects

– stored procedures for objects

• Functions are instances of type Function• More than one argument allowed

• Bag valued results allowed, e.g. Parents• Multiple valued results allowed

• Sets of multiple tuple valued results most general


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AMOS II Data Model• A function has two parts:• 1) signature:

– name and types or arguments and results– examples:

name(person p) -> charstring nname(department d) -> charstring ndept(employee e) -> department dplus(number x, number y) ->number rchildren(person m, person f) -> bag of person cmarriages(person p) -> bag of <Person s, Integer year>

• 2) implementation:– specifies how to compute outputs from valid inputs– non-procedural specifications, except for stored procedures

• A function also contains an extent, i.e. a set of mappings from argument(s) to result(s)

– for example:name(:tore) = ‘Tore’name(:d1) = ‘Toys’dept(:tore) = :d1plus(1,2) = 3 or (1+2 = 3) Indefinite extent!children(:tore,:ulla) = {:karl,:oskar}marriages(:tore) = {<:eva, 1971>,<:ulla,1981>}


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AMOS II Data ModelAMOSQL has four kinds of functions:

• 1) stored functions (c.f. relational tables, object attributes)– values stored explicitly in database

• 2) derived functions (c.f. relational views, object methods)– defined in terms of queries and other functions using AMOSQL

– compiled and optimized by Amos when defined for later use

• 3) database procedures (c.f. stored procedures, object methods)– for procedural computations over the database

• 4) foreign functions (c.f. object methods)– escape to programming language (Java, C, or Lisp) e.g. for foreign database access

• Functions can also be overloaded:– overloaded functions have several different definition depending on the types of their

arguments and results.


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AMOSQL language - schema definition and manipulation

• Creating types:– create type Person;– create type Student under Person;– create type Instructor under Person;– create type TAssistant under Student, Instructor;


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AMOSQL language - schema manipulation

• Delete a type:– delete type Person;

– referential integrity maintained

– types Person, Student, Instructor and TAssistent also deleted

• Create functions:– create function name (Person p) -> Charstring nm as stored;– create function name (Course) -> Charstring as stored;– create function teaches(Instructor) -> bag of Course as stored;– create function enrolled(Student) -> bag of Course as stored;– create function instructors(Course c) -> Instructor i as

select i where teaches(i) = c;

– The instructors function is the inverse of teaches


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• Delete functions:– delete function teaches;

– referential integrity maintained.• e.g. function instructors also deleted

• Defining type and attributes:– create type Person properties

(name Charstring,birthyear Integer,hobby Charstring);

– name, birthyear, hobby are defined together with type Person

• Above equivalent to:– create type Person;

create function name(Person) -> Charstring as stored;create function birthyear(Person) -> Integer as stored;create function hobby(Person) -> Charstring as stored;



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• Example of inherited properties:– create type Person properties

(name Charstring key, age Integer, spouse Person);

– create type Employee under Person properties (dept Department);

– Employee will have functions (attributes) name, age, spouse, dept

• Can easily extend with new functions:– create function phone(Person) -> Charstring as stored;


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• Modeling relationships with cardinality constraints– create function enrolled(Student e nonkey) -> Course c nonkey as

stored;– create function teaches(Instructor i key) -> Course c nonkey as

stored;

• Modeling properties of relationships by multi-argument stored functions:– create function score(Student,Course) -> Integer s as stored;

• Modeling properties of relationships by multi-argument derived functions:– create function instructors(Student s, Course c) -> Teacher t as

select t where teaches(t) = c and enrolled(s) = c;


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AMOSQL language - data definition and manipulation

• Instance creation:– create Person(name, birthyear) instances

:risch (’T.J.M. Risch’, 1949),:ketabchi (’M.A. Ketabchi’, 1950);

– equivalent formulation:create Person instances :ketabchi, :risch;set name(:risch) = ’T.J.M. Risch’;set birthyear(:risch) = 1949;set name(:ketabchi)= ’M.A. Ketabchi’;set birthyear(:ketabchi)=1950;

• Instance deletion:– delete :risch;

delete :ketabchi;


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AMOSQL language - data manipulation

• Calling functions:– name(:risch);

’T.J.M. Risch’– equivalent formulation:

select name(:risch);’T.J.M. Risch’

• Adding elements to bag-valued functions:– add hobbies(:risch) = ‘Painting’;

add hobbies(:risch) = ‘Fishing’;add hobbies(:risch) = ‘Sailing’;hobbies(:risch);‘Painting’‘Fishing’‘Sailing’


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AMOSQL language - data definition and manipulation

• Removing elements from set-valued functions:– remove hobbies(:risch) = ‘Fishing’;

hobbies(:risch);‘Painting’‘Sailing’

• Adding type to object:– add type Teacher to :risch;

set teaches(:risch)= :math;

• Removing type from object:– remove type Teacher from :risch;

teaches(:risch);Error: Function teaches not defined for object

– This will also implicitly doremove teaches(:risch) = :math;Good for database evolution.


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AMOSQL queries• AMOSQL power: relationally complete and more• General format:

– select <expressions>from <variable declarations>where <predicate>;

• Example:– select name(p), birthyear(p) from Person p;

• Function composition simplifies queries that traverse function graph (Daplex semantics):– name(parents(friends(:risch)));

• More SQLish:– select n

from Charstring n, Person par, Person frwhere n = name(par) and

par = parents(fr) and fr = friends(:risch);

• Works also for bag-valued arithmetic functions:– sqrt(sqrt(16.0));

2.0-2.0


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AMOSQL examples

• Examples of functions and ad hoc queries

create function income(Person) -> Integer as stored;create function taxes(Person) -> Integer as stored;create function parents(Person) -> bag of Person as stored;create function netincome(Person p) -> Integer as

select income(p)-taxes(p);create function sparents(Person c) -> Student as

select parents(c); /* Parent if parent is student;bag of implicit for derived functions */

create function grandsparentsnetincomes(Person c) -> Integer asselect netincome(sparents(parents(c)));

select name(c)from Person cwhere grandsparentsnetincomes(c) > 100000 and income(c) <10000;


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AMOSQL aggregation functions

• An aggregation function is a function that coerces some value to a single unit, a bag, before it is called.

• “bagged” arguments are not “distributed” as for other AMOSQL functions (no Daplex semantics for aggregation functions)– count(parents(friends(:risch)));

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• Signature:– create function count(bag of Object) -> Integer as foreign ...;

• Nested queries, local bags:– sum(select income(p) from Person p);


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AMOSQL quantification

• Quantifiers

• Existential and universal quantification over subqueries supported through two aggregation operators:– create function notany(bag of object) -> boolean;– create function some(bag of object) -> boolean;

some tests if there exists some element in the bag

notany tests if there does not exist some element in the bag

• Example:– create function maxincome(Dept d) -> Integer as

select income(p)from Employee pwhere dept(p) = d and

notany(select true from Employee q where income(q) > income(p));


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AMOSQL advanced updates

• Set-oriented updates

• Setting multiple function instances:– set salary(e) = s

from Employee e, Integer swhere s=salary(manager(e));

• Removing values from set-valued functions:– remove friends(:risch) = f

from Person fwhere age(f) > age(:risch);

– remove friends(:risch) = p from Person pwhere count(friends(p))>5;


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AMOSQL stored procedures

• Database Procedures

• For example to encapsulate database updates:– create function creperson(charstring nm, integer inc) -> person p

asbegin

create person instances p;set name(p) = nm;set income(p) = inc;result p

end;

• Optimized iterative update:– create function RemoveOldFriends(Person p) -> boolean as

beginremove friends(p) = sfrom Person swhere age(s) > age(p);end;

RemoveOldFriends(:risch);


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AMOSQL sequences

Vectors (ordered sequences of objects)

• The datatype vector stores ordered sequences of objects of any type

• Vector declarations can be parameterized by declaring the typeVector of <type> as for example:– create type Segment properties

(start Vector of Real, stop Vector of Real);

– create type Polygon properties(segments Vector of Segment);

• Vector values have system provided constructors:– create Segment instances :s1, :S2;

set start(:s1)=Vector of Real(1.1, 2.3);set stop(:s1)=Vector of Real(2.3, 4.6);set start(:s2)=Vector of Real(2.8, 5.3);

– create Polygon instances :p1;set segments(:p1)=Vector of Segment(:s1, :s2);


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AMOSQL sequences• Extended ER notation:

• Vector types can be used as any other type• E.g. functions on sequences can be defined:

– create function square(Number r)->Number as select r * r;– create function positive(Number r)->Number as select r where

r>=0;– create function length(Segment l) -> real

as select positive(sqrt(square(start(l)[0] - stop(l)[0]) + square(start(l)[1] - stop(l)[1])));

– create function length(Polygon p) -> realas select sum(select length(segments(p)[i]) from Integer i);

• Vector queries:– length(:s1);– length(:p1);– select s from Segment s where length(s) > 1.34;


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AMOSQL schema queries

• System data can be queried as any other database data as for example:

• Find the names of the supertypes of EMPLOYEE:– name(supertypes(typenamed(“EMPLOYEE”)));

“PERSON”

• Find the resolvents of an overloaded function:– name(resolvents(functionnamed(“AGE“)));

“DEPARTMENT.AGE->INTEGER”“PERSON.AGE->INTEGER”

• Find the types of the first argument of each resolvent of a function:– name(resolventtype(functionnamed(“AGE”)));

“DEPARTMENT”“PERSON”

• Find all functions whose single argument have type PERSON– attributes(typenamed(‘PERSON”));

“NAME”“AGE”


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How to run AMOS II

• Install system on your PC by downloading it from– http://www.csd.uu.se/~udbl/amos/

• Run AMOS II with:– amos2

• User’s guide in:– http://www.csd.uu.se/~udbl/amos/doc/amos_users_guide.html

• Simple AMOS II tutorial in– http://www.csd.uu.se/~udbl/amos/doc/tut.pdf


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(AM)OSQL in Iris/OpenODB/AMOS II

• Summary:

• (AM)OSQL provides flexible OR DBMS capabilities

• Not hard wired object model, but dynamically extensible model

• Extended subset of object part of SQL99

• Very good support for ad hoc queries

• Good schema modification operations

• Object views

• The key is the functional model of (AM)OSQL

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Kjell Orsborn 2015-07-13 1 UU - DIS - UDBL DATABASE SYSTEMS - 10p Course No. 2AD235 Spring 2002 A second course on development of database systems Kjell