Distributed Object Management in Thor
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چکیده
Thor is a new object-oriented database management system (OODBMS), intended to be used in heterogeneous distributed systems to allow programs written in diierent programming languages to share objects in a convenient manner. Thor objects are persistent in spite of failures, are highly likely to be accessible whenever they are needed, and can be struc-tured to reeect the kinds of information of interest to users. Thor combines the advantages of the object-oriented approach with those of database systems: users can store and manipulate objects that capture the semantics of their applications, and can also access objects via queries. Thor is an ongoing project, and this paper is a snapshot: we describe our rst design and a partial implementation of that design. This design is primarily concerned with issues related to the implementation of an OODBMS as a distributed system.
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