The MBC information booklet - RMIT University

3.2.3 ISYS1072—
Deductive and
Object-
Relational
Databases
Chapter 3: Advanced Databases
• Co-requisite: Extensive programming skills in C language and advanced data
structures and algorithms, equivalent to COSC1285 Advanced Programming
Techniques
For more information on the course, go to www.rmit.edu.au/courses2006/029570.
Note: This is a Masters-level course.
Aim
This course has two components. In the first component students are introduced to
extensions to the traditional relational data model, known as Deductive Databases.
Students will study those elements of Logic Programming, which are directly linked to
Database Systems, and will learn optimisation techniques for deductive databases, how
to use a Database with deductive capabilities based on SQL 3.
In the second component the course will cover the principles and use of object relational
database systems. This covers the transformation methodology of object to tables,
object-extension in relational systems, and object-oriented concepts and
implementations in object-oriented database systems.
Students who complete the course will be familiar with using an object-relational
database system, be able to design using an object model and transform it to relational
tables, and understand in broad terms the concepts of object-relational and objectoriented
database systems.
Objectives
At the conclusion of the course, the student should be:
• able to understand the need for Deductive Databases;
• able to understand the optimisation issues surrounding deductive queries;
• able to understand how to create and use a Deductive Database;
• able to understand the principles underlying relational, object-relational and objectoriented
database systems and their applications;
• able to understand the transformation issues from an object model to a relational
model;
• familiar with object extensions in commercial database systems;
• familiar with the current development of SQL involving object-oriented features.
Prerequisites
• ISYS1055 Introduction to Database Systems
• Co-requisite: COSC1295 Java for Programmers OR COSC1252 Object-Oriented
Programming
Syllabus
• Introduction to Deductive Databases and Logic Programming; Viability of Logic
Programming Approach
• Optimisation for Coupled Systems
• Datalog and Model Theory
• Relational Translation and Differential Optimisation
• Negation
• Magic Sets
• Introduction to Object Oriented Modelling with UML; Applications of Relational,
Object-Relational and Object-Oriented databases
• Object-Relational Transformation (Inheritance and Association)
• Object-Relational Transformation (Aggregation and Object behaviour)
• Object-Relational Databases
• Object-Oriented Databases
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