CoDEL – A relationally complete language for database evolution

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Beitragende

Abstract

Software developers adapt to the fast-moving nature of software systems with agile development techniques. However, database developers lack the tools and concepts to keep pace. Data, already existing in a running product, needs to be evolved accordingly, usually by manually written SQL scripts. A promising approach in database research is to use a declarative database evolution language, which couples both schema and data evolution into intuitive operations. Existing database evolution languages focus on usability but did not aim for completeness. However, this is an inevitable prerequisite for reasonable database evolution to avoid complex and error-prone workarounds. We argue that relational completeness is the feasible expressiveness for a database evolution language. Building upon an existing language, we introduce CoDEL. We define its semantic using relational algebra, propose a syntax, and show its relational completeness.

Details

OriginalspracheEnglisch
TitelAdvances in Databases and Information Systems
Redakteure/-innenLadjel Bellatreche, Tadeusz Morzy, Patrick Valduriez
Herausgeber (Verlag)Springer-Verlag
Seiten63-76
Seitenumfang14
ISBN (elektronisch)978-3-319-23135-8
ISBN (Print)978-3-319-23134-1
PublikationsstatusVeröffentlicht - 2015
Peer-Review-StatusJa

Publikationsreihe

ReiheLecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)
Band9282
ISSN0302-9743

Konferenz

Titel19th East European Conference on Advances in Databases and Information Systems, ADBIS 2015
Dauer8 - 11 September 2015
StadtPoitiers
LandFrankreich

Externe IDs

ORCID /0000-0001-8107-2775/work/199215562

Schlagworte

Forschungsprofillinien der TU Dresden

Fächergruppen, Lehr- und Forschungsbereiche, Fachgebiete nach Destatis

Schlagwörter

  • Descriptive database evolution, Evolution language, Relational completeness