J. Paredaens et B. Kuijpers, DATA MODELS AND QUERY LANGUAGES FOR SPATIAL DATABASES, Data & knowledge engineering, 25(1-2), 1998, pp. 29-53
Citations number
41
Categorie Soggetti
Computer Science Artificial Intelligence","Computer Science Information Systems","Computer Science Artificial Intelligence","Computer Science Information Systems
The main purpose of this paper is to investigate the characteristics t
hat distinguish spatial databases systems from traditional ones. Heret
o, we give an overview of some well-known data models and query langua
ges of spatial database systems. We also investigate the concept of ge
nericity, as introduced by Chandra and Warel for classical databases,
for spatial databases. Paredaens, Van den Bussche and Van Gucht have s
hown that the concept of genericity breaks up in a hierarchy of generi
city classes. In this respect, we classify data models and query langu
ages according to the type of generic operations they are designed to
support.