Objects collection management in multidimensional DBMS data model

Abstract

A multidimensional DBMS (MDBMS) data model is a nested relational DBMS (RDBMS) that has been made available since 1970. A multidimensional DBMS data model could model real world problems more naturally, such as one to many parent to children table relationship, variable length record and length field and a rich set of data management functionality. The paper considers collection object type design in a multidimensional DBMS data model. It presents database terms used between a relational DBMS, a multidimensional DBMS and an object oriented DBMS. The benefits, management and optimisation of the multidimensional DBMS are presented. The paper also presents discussions on class management, inheritance mapping, object management and implementation of object collection. It suggests improvements to the object collection implementation and continues work on distributed object management utilising a multidimensional DBMS.