Encyclopedia of database technologies and applications

• Corporate Author: IGI Global.
• Other Authors: Rivero, Laura C., 1956-, Doorn, Jorge H., 1946-, Ferraggine, Viviana E., 1961-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: Hershey, Pa. : IGI Global (701 E. Chocolate Avenue, Hershey, Pennsylvania, 17033, USA), c2005.
• Subjects: Database management > Encyclopedias.; Relational, Object-Oriented and Object-Relational Database Systems; Active, Deductive, Logic and Knowledge Databases; Multimedia (Audio, Video, Image, Music) Database Systems; Data Warehousing & Data Mining; Design Methodologies and Semantic enrichment; Database Languages SQL XML; Distributed DBMSs; Geospatial and Temporal Databases; Internet and Web-Based Database Systems; Database Services; Emerging Developments; Database reverse engineering (DBRE); Data Reverse Engineering (DRE); Database interoperability and integration
• Online Access: View fulltext via EzAccess
• Physical Description: electronic texts (various pagings : ill.) : digital files.; Also available in print.
• Format: Mode of access: World Wide Web.
• Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• ISBN: 9781591407959 (PDF); 1591407958 (ebook)
• Access: Restricted to subscribers or individual electronic text purchasers.

This encyclopedia is a wide-ranging collection of diverse coverage of topics related to database concepts, technologies, and applications. It provides an overview of the state-of-the-art of classical subjects and has contributions from over 175 international researchers from 33 countries, more than 970 terms and definitions and over 2,400 references. It also delivers clear and concise explanations of emerging issues and technologies such as multimedia database systems, data warehousing and mining, geospatial and temporal databases, and data reverse engineering.