SECONDO: an extensible DBMS platform for research prototyping and teaching Ralf Hartmut Güting, Victor Teixeira de Almeida, Dirk Ansorge, Thomas Behr, Zhiming Ding, Thomas Höse, Frank Hoffmann, Markus Spiekermann, and Ulrich Telle   View Paper (PDF)   Return to Demo Session 2: Advanced DB and Data Models Abstract The goal of SECONDO is to provide a "generic" database system frame that can be filled with implementations of various DBMS data models. SECONDO was intended originally as a platform for implementing and experimenting with new kinds of data models, especially to support spatial, spatio-temporal, and graph database models. We now feel, SECONDO has a clean architecture, and it strike a reasonable balance between simplicity and sophistication. Since all the source code is accessible and to a large extent comprehensible for students, we believe it is also an excellent tool for teaching database architecture and implementation concepts. SECONDO runs on Windows, Linux, and Solaris platforms, and consists of three major components SECONDO kernel, optimizer, and graphical user interface. ©2006 Association for Computing Machinery