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The TENTACLE database system as a web server

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Advances in Databases (BNCOD 1998)

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We describe the TENTACLE system, an extensible database system which uses a graph data model to store and manipulate poorly structured data. To enable the database to be tailored to particular problem domains, it has been equipped with a small embedded interpreter which can be used to construct the equivalent of customised views of or front-ends to a given semi-structured data domain. To demonstrate the capabilities of the system we have built a web server directly on top of the database system, making it possible to provide a clean mapping between the logical structure of the web pages and the underlying storage system.

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  1. University of Cape Town, 7701, Rondebosch, RSA

    Marc Welz

  2. King's College London, Strand, WC2R 2LS, London, UK

    Wood Peter

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Suzanne M. Embury Nicholas J. Fiddian W. Alex Gray Andrew C. Jones

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Welz, M., Peter, W. (1998). The TENTACLE database system as a web server. In: Embury, S.M., Fiddian, N.J., Gray, W.A., Jones, A.C. (eds) Advances in Databases. BNCOD 1998. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 1405. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/BFb0053481

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