A Retrospective of R*: A Distributed Database Management System

Proceedings of the IEEE

Volumn 75, Issue 5, 1987, Pages 668-673

  Lindsay, Bruce G ^a  

^a IBM ALMADEN RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTRIBUTED TERMINAL MANAGEMENT (DTM); INTERSYSTEM COMMUNICATION (ISC); R* PROTOTYPE DISTRIBUTED DATABASE MANAGEMENT SYSTEM; SYSTEM QUERY LANGUAGE (SQL);

COMPUTER SYSTEMS, DIGITAL - DISTRIBUTED; COMPUTERS - DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS;

DATABASE SYSTEMS;

EID: 0023347761     PISSN: 00189219     EISSN: 15582256     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/PROC.1987.13780     Document Type: Article

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