Re: Inheritance mapping in a RDBMS

From: Akmal B. Chaudhri <akmal_at_soi.city.ac.uk-nospam>
Date: Mon, 19 Jan 2004 16:25:54 +0000
Message-ID: <Pine.GSO.4.05.10401191615570.2577-100000@altair.soi.city.ac.uk>

On Mon, 19 Jan 2004, Maarten van der Peet wrote:

[snip]

>
> So my questions are:
> what's the best way to map an inheritance hierarchy to a relational
> database? What are the advantages or disadvantages of the different
> solutions? Maybe there are some other solutions?
>
> Thanks for your time.
>
> Maarten
>
>

Arthur Keller at Stanford wrote some papers that covered this topic. One paper is this:

http://www-db.stanford.edu/pub/keller/1995/high-perf.pdf

I believe some of the ideas described were used in the commercial product, called Persistence (www.persistence.com).

akmal Received on Mon Jan 19 2004 - 10:25:54 CST