Advanced Database Systems CPTR 521

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Notes on First Class Taught

Project

Option 1

Extend PostgreSQL to include a constraint layer on top of the physical one by:

  1. providing new data types
  2. providing new operators for the new data types.
    1. recursive queries
    2. join operations
    3. spatial operations
  3. Provide a native Datalog interface to PostgreSQL

Option A

Re-create MLPQ from the ground up one layer per project.

  1. Modeling constraint data in general and as specialized types.
  2. Storing and retrieving the physical data from files - strategy
  3. Interface that accepts index Plugins different types of indexes