Implementing a distributed garbage collector for OO databases

We describe the implementation of a distributed garbage collector for a group of object oriented databases. We start by considering the issues that led to the choice of algorithm and why garbage collection in a database is more difficult than in memory. We describe the algorithm and how it was imple...

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Published inProceedings of Technology of Object-Oriented Languages and Systems - TOOLS 30 (Cat. No.PR00278) pp. 42 - 52
Main Authors Bielak, R., Sarkis, J.-P.
Format Conference Proceeding
LanguageEnglish
Published IEEE 1999
Subjects
Automatic programming
Distributed databases
Java
Memory management
Object oriented databases
Object oriented programming
Parallel programming
Partitioning algorithms
Programming profession
Virtual machining
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Summary:We describe the implementation of a distributed garbage collector for a group of object oriented databases. We start by considering the issues that led to the choice of algorithm and why garbage collection in a database is more difficult than in memory. We describe the algorithm and how it was implemented in Eiffel, using PVM (Parallel Virtual Machine) and the Versant ODBMS.
ISBN:9780769502786
0769502784
DOI:10.1109/TOOLS.1999.787534