An overview of the Iris object-oriented DBMS
D.H. Fishman · 1988
The Iris database management system, a research prototype of a next-generation DBMS (database management system) is presented. Iris is intended to meet the needs of new and emerging database applications such as office information and knowledge-based systems, engineering test and measurement, and hardware and software design. In addition to providing for permanence of data, controlled sharing, backup, and recovery, Iris will also provide a number of needed capabilities that include rich data-modeling constructs, uniform access to specialized storage subsystems and to foreign DBMSs, novel data types (images, voice, text, vectors, matrices), prolonged transactions, direct database support for inference, and version control. Iris will also provide sharing of objects across applications and programming languages.>