Developing a DataBlade for a new index

In order to better support current and new applications, the major DBMS vendors are stepping beyond uninterpreted binary large objects, termed BLOBs, and are beginning to offer extensibility features that allow external developers to extend the DBMS with, e.g., their own data types and accompanying...

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Main Authors: Bliujute, R., Saltenis, S., Slivinskas, G., Jensen, C.S.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Blades
Computer science
Concrete
Database systems
Electrical capacitance tomography
Guidelines
Stress
Testing
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Summary:In order to better support current and new applications, the major DBMS vendors are stepping beyond uninterpreted binary large objects, termed BLOBs, and are beginning to offer extensibility features that allow external developers to extend the DBMS with, e.g., their own data types and accompanying access methods. Existing solutions include DB2 extenders, Informix DataBlades, and Oracle cartridges. Extensible systems offer new and exciting opportunities for researchers and third party developers alike. The paper reports on an implementation of an Informix DataBlade for the GR-tree, a new R-tree based index. This effort represents a stress test of the perhaps currently most extensible DBMS, in that the new DataBlade aims to achieve better performance, not just to add functionality. The paper provides guidelines for how to create an access method DataBlade, describes the sometimes surprising challenges that must be negotiated during DataBlade development, and evaluates the extensibility of the Informix Dynamic Server.
ISSN:1063-6382
2375-026X
DOI:10.1109/ICDE.1999.754947