A multidatabase system (MDBS) integrates preexisting and heterogeneous databases in a distributed environment. A multidatabase transaction is a consistent and reliable execution of an application over a multidatabase system. The authors summarize the characteristics of multidatabase transactions and present a multidatabase transaction specification language, the InterBase Parallel Language (IPL). IPL allows users to write MDBS transactions by specifying all associated actions, their sequences, control flow, and data flow among subtransactions, and yet retaining the autonomies of the preexisting software systems. IPL also allows users to specify different commit protocols for different subtransactions and to control the atomicity and isolation granularity of an MDBS transaction. IPL components and design issues are described in detail. The implementation of IPL is also discussed.>

article Free Access Share on InterBase: a multidatabase prototype systems Authors: O. Bukhres Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INView Profile , J. Chen Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INView Profile , A. Elmagarmid Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INView Profile , X. Liu Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INView Profile , J. Mullen Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN Department of Computer Sciences, Purdue University, West Lafayette, INView Profile Authors Info & Claims ACM SIGMOD RecordVolume 22Issue 2June 1, 1993 pp 534–539https://doi.org/10.1145/170036.171545Online:01 June 1993Publication History 2citation264DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations2Total Downloads264Last 12 Months8Last 6 weeks2 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my Alerts New Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Article Free Access Share on An InterBase system at BNR Authors: Omran Bukhres BNR Inc., 35 Davis Drive, RTP, NC and Computer Sciences Dept, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN BNR Inc., 35 Davis Drive, RTP, NC and Computer Sciences Dept, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, INView Profile , Jiansan Chen BNR Inc., 35 Davis Drive, RTP, NC and Computer Sciences Dept, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, IN BNR Inc., 35 Davis Drive, RTP, NC and Computer Sciences Dept, Purdue University, W. Lafayette, INView Profile , Rob Pezzoli BNR Inc., 35 Davis Drive, RTP, NC BNR Inc., 35 Davis Drive, RTP, NCView Profile Authors Info & Claims SIGMOD '93: Proceedings of the 1993 ACM SIGMOD international conference on Management of dataJune 1993 Pages 426–429https://doi.org/10.1145/170035.170113Online:01 June 1993Publication History 0citation187DownloadsMetricsTotal Citations0Total Downloads187Last 12 Months3Last 6 weeks0 Get Citation AlertsNew Citation Alert added!This alert has been successfully added and will be sent to:You will be notified whenever a record that you have chosen has been cited.To manage your alert preferences, click on the button below.Manage my AlertsNew Citation Alert!Please log in to your account Save to BinderSave to BinderCreate a New BinderNameCancelCreateExport CitationPublisher SiteeReaderPDF

Existing and legacy software systems are the product of lengthy and individual developmental histories. Interoperability among such systems offers the support of global applications on these systems and intelligent information processing. However, interoperability among these heterogeneous systems is hampered by the absence of an integrated environment that would allow the development of global applications requiring intersystem cooperation. A uniform application-system interface is necessary to abstract the common properties of the global applications and of systems, mask their differences, and thus overcome this heterogeneity barrier. This paper presents such a solution, termed Remote System Interfaces (RSIs), which has been designed and implemented in the course of the InterBase project at Purdue University.