Design and Implementation of an Unnesting Front-End Module for an OQL Query Processor
Seung-Jin Jeong, Jin-Wan Jeong, Hyeong-Ju Kim · 2000
Many object query languages including OQL(the query language proposed by theOBMG) allow query block to be nested in any clause: select clause, from clause and where clause. The processing of nested queries can affect the performance of its query processor Therefore, an OQL query processor should have effective optimizing techniques for nested queries. This paper designs and implements a new framework of an unnesting front-end for an OQL query processor This unnesting module can minimize implementation overhead when developing a new OQL processor or extending an existing query processor to be equipped with an unnesting facility This is accomplished by separation between logical algebra operators used in an unnesting front-end and ones in a query optimizer