SIRIUS: a French nationwide project on distributed data bases
Jean Le Bihan, Christian Esculier, Gérard Le Lann, Witold Litwin, Georges Gardarin, S. Sedillort, L. Treille · Very Large Data Bases · 1980
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.