CIDR07_bdbms-Eltabakh

"bdbms -A database management System for Biological Data", Mohamed Y.Eltabakh, Mourad Ouzzani, Walid G.Aref

• an extensible prototype database engine for supporting and processing biological databases
• provides framework that allows adding annotations/provenance at multiple granularities (i.e: table, tuple, column, and cell levels) archiving and restoring annotations, and querying the data based on the annotation/provenance values
• an extension to SQL is introduced, Annotation-SQL or A-SQL, to support the processing and querying of annotations and provenance informations
• integrates the non-traditional indexing techniques inside bdbms: (1) supporting the multidimensional datasets via multidimensional indexing techniques; (2) supporting compressed datasets via novel external-memory indexes that work over the compressed data without decompressing it
• use of Space-partitioning trees for indexing objects in a multi-dimensional space