Method Induced Partitioning Schemes in Object-oriented Databases

Object-oriented database systems are becoming popular and are being used in a large number of application domains. Many of these application domains are inherently distributed. The focus of this work is on articulating the concepts of method induced partitioning schemes in object-oriented databases by understanding and classifying the object behavior embodied by the methods. We provide a solution for supporting fragmentation transparency by using method transformation. Finally, we present guidelines for method induced partitioning in object-oriented databases. 1 Introduction The current trend in information management is towards a distributed, object-oriented database environment [5, 12]. In such an environment, new techniques are needed to facilitate effective object distribution and partitioning, since traditional relational approaches to these problems tend to be deficient/inadequate for object-oriented databases (OODBs) due to a number of unique features (like, complex object mode..