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Mary Tork Roth, Manish Arya, Laura M Haas, Michael J Carey, William Cody, Ronald Fagin, Peter M Schwarz, John Thomas, Edward L Wimmers

1996/6/4

Sigmod Record

25

557-557

10.1145

ACM ASSOCIATION FOR COMPUTING MACHINERY

The Garlic Project Page 1 557 Overview The goal of the Garlic [1] project is to build a multimedia information system capable of integrating data that resides in different database systems as well as in a variety of non-database data servers. This integration must be enabled while maintaining the independence of the data servers, and without creating copies of their data. “Multimedia” should be interpreted broadly to mean not only images, video, and audio, but also text and application specific data types (eg, CAD drawings, medical objects, ...). Since much of this data is naturally modeled by objects, Garlic provides an object-oriented schema to applications, interprets object queries, creates execution plans for sending pieces of queries to the appropriate data servers, and assembles query results for delivery back to the applications. A significant focus of the project is support for “intelligent” data servers, ie, servers that …