Exodus enigma

The EXODUS optimizer generator

The EXODUS Extensible DBMS Project: An Overview

This paper presents an overview of EXODUS, an extensible database system project that is addressing data management problems posed by a variety of challenging new applications. The goal of the project is to facilitate the fast development of high-performance, application-specific database systems. EXODUS provides certain kernel facilities, including a versatile storage manager. In addition, it ...

The Architecture of the EXODUS Extensible DBMS

With non-traditional application areas such as engineering design, image/voice data management, scientific/statistical applications, and artificial intelligence systems all clamoring for ways to store and efficiently process larger and larger volumes of data, it is clear that traditional database technology has been pushed to its limits. It also seems clear that no single database system will b...

Exodus - Exploring SMT for EU Institutions

In this paper, we describe Exodus, a joint pilot project of the European Commission’s Directorate-General for Translation (DGT) and the European Parliament’s DirectorateGeneral for Translation (DG TRAD) which explores the potential of deploying new approaches to machine translation in European institutions. We have participated in the English-to-French track of this year’s WMT10 shared translat...

Storage Management for Objects in EXODUS

In the 1970’s, the relational data model was the focus of much of the research in the database area. At this point, relational database technology is well-understood, a number of relational systems are commercially available, and they support the majority of business applications relatively well. One of the foremost database problems of the 1980’s is how to support classes of applications that ...