Database Manipulation Operations on Quantum Systems
Ahmed Younes · Quantum Information Review · 2013
Manipulating a database system on a quantum system is an essential aim to benefit from the promising speed-up of quantum computers over classical computers in areas that take a vast amount of storage and processing time such as in databases. In this paper, the basic operations for manipulating the data in a quantum database will be defined, e.g. INSERT, UPDATE, DELETE, SELECT, backing up and restoring a database file. This gives the ability to perform the data processing, that usually takes a long processing time on a classical database system, in a simultaneous way on a quantum system. Defining a quantum version of more advanced concepts used in database systems, e.g. the referential integrity and the relational algebra, is a normal extension to this work.