An overview of GOOD

ABSTRACT

GOOD is an acronym, standing for Graph-Oriented Object Database. GOOD is being developed as a joint research effort of Indiana University and the University of Antwerp. The main thrust behind the project is to indicate general concepts that are fundamental to any graph-oriented database user-interface. GOOD does not restrict its attention to well-considered topics such as ad-hoc query facilities, but wants to cover the full spectrum of database manipulations. The idea of graph-pattern matching as a uniform object manipulation primitive offers a uniform framework in which this can be accomplished.

REFERENCES

• 1: Marc Gyssens , Jan Paredaens , Dirk van Gucht, A graph-oriented object database model, Proceedings of the ninth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, p.417-424, April 02-04, 1990, Nashville, Tennessee, United States [doi>10.1145/298514.298593]
• 2: Marc Gyssens , Jan Paredaens , Dirk Van Gucht, A graph-oriented object model for database end-user interfaces, Proceedings of the 1990 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of data, p.24-33, May 23-26, 1990, Atlantic City, New Jersey, United States
• 3: M. Gyssens , J. Paredaens , J. Van den Bussche , D. Van Gucht, A Graph-Oriented Object Database Model, IEEE Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, v.6 n.4, p.572-586, August 1994 [doi>10.1109/69.298174]
• 4: Jan Van den Bussche , Jan Paredaens, The expressive power structured values in pure OODB's (extended abstract), Proceedings of the tenth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems, p.291-299, May 29-31, 1991, Denver, Colorado, United States [doi>10.1145/113413.113440]
• 5: [5] M. Andries, M. Gemis, J. Paredaens, I. Thyssens, and J. Van den Bussche. A graph-oriented user interface for object databases. Technical Report 91-04, University of Antwerp (UIA), 1991.
• 6: [6] M. Andries and J. Paredaens. Macros for the GOOD Transformation language. Technical Report 91-20, University of Antwerp (UIA), 1991.
• 7: [7] M. Andries, M. Gemis, J. Paredaens, I. Thyssens, and J. Van den Bussche. Concepts for graph-oriented object manipulation. Technical Report 91-36, University of Antwerp (UIA), 1991. To appear in EDBT 1992.
• 8: [8] M. Gyssens, L.V. Saxton, and D. Van Gucht. Tagging as an alternative to object creation. Submitted.

INDEX TERMS

Primary Classification:
  H. Information Systems
  H.5 INFORMATION INTERFACES AND PRESENTATION (I.7)

Additional Classification:
  A. General Literature

  H. Information Systems
  H.2 DATABASE MANAGEMENT

General Terms:
Design, Human Factors, Management