Modern database systems provide not only powerful data models but also complex query languages supporting powerful features such as the ability to create new database objects and ...
Object database management systems (ODBMSs) typically offer fixed approaches to evolve the schema of the database and adapt existing instances accordingly. Applications, however, h...
—Ruby on Rails (or just “Rails”) is a popular web application framework built on top of Ruby, an objectoriented scripting language. While Ruby’s powerful features such as d...
Jong-hoon (David) An, Avik Chaudhuri, Jeffrey S. F...
Semistructured databases are treated as dynamically typed: they come equipped with no independent schema or type system to constrain the data. Query languages that are designed fo...
XQuery is a declarative language for querying and updating XML data sources. Interfacing XQuery to a host programming language is difficult because of the type system mismatch, an...
Donald D. Chamberlin, Michael J. Carey, Daniela Fl...