PANDA: An Extensible DBMS Supporting Object-Oriented Software Techniques

The PANDA databases management system was designed for non-standard applications which deal with spatial data. It supports an object-oriented program design with modularization, encapsulation, and reusability, and can be easily embedded into complex applications, such as spatial information systems or cartographic expert systems. It is presented how complex objects and their operations are defined. A layered structure on top of the programmer’s interface provides object operations which include potentially complex consistency constraints.