RasDaMan

An application-independent multidimensional array DBMS

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Data independence
  • clean separation of logical and physical level 
Conceptual model
  • based on RasDaMan Array Algebra
  • RasDL for n-D array definition
  • RasQL with declarative n-D array operators
Client/server architecture
  • server-based query evaluation
  • algebraic query optimization
  • specialized storage manager 
    • arbitrary tiling 
    • geo index 
    • transparent compression
  • middleware on top of conventional DBMS
APIs and tools
  • RasLib C++ and Java API
  • Unix (c/s) and WinNT (c)
  • RasDaView graphical frontend
    • queries on n-D databases
    • display of 1-D to 3-D query result sets
Standards adherence
  • RasQL embedded in SQL-92
  • RasLib API conformant with ODMG 2.0
In part funded by European Commission
  • grant no. 20073
  • partners: Hospital General de Manresa, Spanish National Geographic Institute (all Spain), et al.
www.forwiss.tu-muenchen.de/~rasdaman
Bavarian Research Center
for Knowledge-Based Systems
(www.forwiss.de)