Data Management

Detailed Information About the JGOFS Distributed Database Management System (DDMS)

JGOFS Data System Overview

Glenn R. Flierl, MIT

James K.B. Bishop, LDEO

David M. Glover, WHOI

Satish Paranjpe, LDEO

Index

• Introduction
• Basic Elements
• Data Objects
  • Translators/ methods: a view into the PI's data set
  • Data Model
  • Putting data on system
• Communications: connections between user applications and translators
  • Servers and Dictionaries: making the connection
  • Protocols: kinds of information transferred
• User Applications: talking to the JGOFS data system
  • Interfaces: using the system
  • Application Program Interface: subroutine calls
• Manipulating data

Obtaining the Software

• US JGOFS version of jgofs DDMS
• latest jgofs ddms files Updated: 06 Jan 2004, includes these files (v 1.8.4)
• jgofs DDMS image files Posted: 23 Feb 2004, 20KB .tar includes README
• jgofs DDMS documentation files Posted: 10 Mar 2004, 0.5 MB .tar.gz of .html and .ps versions


• Installation instructions and tar file generation (v 1.5)

Full Document

A PDF version of this document is also available.

Further Documentation

A collection of Postscript documents describing technical details of the system are available here.