Aditi
<database, project> The Aditi Deductive Database System. A multi-user
deductive database system from the Machine Intelligence Project at the
University of Melbourne. It supports base relations defined by facts (relations
in the sense of relational databases) and derived relations defined by rules
that specify how to compute new information from old information.
Both base relations and the rules defining derived relations are stored on disk
and are accessed as required during query evaluation. The rules defining derived
relations are expressed in a Prolog-like language, which is also used for
expressing queries.
Aditi supports the full structured data capability of Prolog. Base relations can
store arbitrarily nested terms, for example arbitrary length lists, and rules
can directly manipulate such terms. Base relations can be indexed with B-trees
or multi-level signature files.
Users can access the system through a Motif-based query and database
administration tool, or through a command line interface. There is also in
interface that allows NU-Prolog programs to access Aditi in a transparent
manner. Proper transaction processing is not supported in this release.
The beta release runs on SPARC/SunOS4.1.2 and MIPS/Irix4.0.
E-mail: <aditi@cs.mu.oz.au>.
(1992-12-17)
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