SIRIUS: A French Nationwide Project on Distributed Data Bases

This paper presents SIRIUS, a french nationwide pilot project on distributed data bases initiated by INRIA (Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et Automatique) in June 1976. The project SIRIUS is a collaborative project involving people from Universities, Research centres, Industry and "end users". It is aimed at the development of, and the experimentation with techniques and methodologies which permit the definition, realization and exploitation of Distributed Data Base Management Systems. This paper described the original objectives, organization and achievements of the project. It gives also a listing of the principal technical documents produced by the project participants.

[1]  Paul F. Wilms.  Qualitative and Quantitative Comparison of Update Algorithms in Distributed Databases , 1980, DDB.

[2]  Georges Gardarin,et al.  Proving Consistency Of Database Transactions , 1979, Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1979..

[3]  Jean Le Bihan,et al.  SIRIUS-DELTA: Un Prototype de Systeme de Gestion de Bases de Donnees Reparties , 1980, DDB.

[4]  Wojciech Cellary,et al.  A Multi-Query Approach to Distributed Processing in a Relational Distributed Data Base Management System , 1980, DDB.

[5]  Robert Demolombe,et al.  Estimation of the Number of Tuples Satisfying a Query Expressed in Predicate Calculus Language , 1980, VLDB.

[6]  Michel E. Adiba,et al.  A Distributed Data Base System Using Logical Relational Machines , 1978, VLDB.

[7]  Georges Gardarin,et al.  Scheduling Algorithms for Avoiding Inconsistency in Large Databases , 1977, VLDB.

[8]  Jean Le Bihan,et al.  Issues in Distributed Data Base Management Systems: A Technical Overview , 1978, VLDB.

[9]  Gérard Le Lann,et al.  Algorithms for Distributed Data-Sharing Systems Which Use Tickets , 1978, Berkeley Workshop.

[10]  Robert Demolombe.  Semantic Checking Of Questions Expressed In Predicate Calculus Language , 1979, Fifth International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, 1979..

[11]  Paul Decitre,et al.  POLYPHEME Project: The DEM Distributed Execution Monitor , 1980, DDB.

[12]  Witold Litwin,et al.  Linear Hashing: A new Algorithm for Files and Tables Addressing , 1980, International Conference On Databases.