TY  - SER
AU  - Seshadri, Praveen
TI  - Enhanced abstract data types in object-relational databases
KW  - OBJECT-RELATIONAL DATABASE
KW  - EXTENSIBILITY
KW  - DATABASE TYPES
KW  - QUERY OPTIMIZATION
N1  - The explosion in complex multimedia content makes it crucial for database systems to support such data efficiently. This paper argues that the "blackbox" ADTs used in current object-relational systems inhibit their performance, thereby limiting their use in emerging applications. Instead, the next generation of object-relational database systems should be based on enhanced abstract data type (E-ADT) technology. An (E-ADT) can expose the semantics of its methods to the database system, thereby permitting advanced query optimizations
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