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Conclusion

Shore is an integration of file system and OODB concepts and services. From the file system world, Shore draws object naming services, support for lower (and cheaper) degrees of transaction-related services, and an object access mechanism for use by legacy Unix file-based tools. From the OODB world, Shore draws data modeling features and support for associative access and performance acceleration features. To provide scalability and a basis for parallelizing the system, Shore also employs a novel architecture, including support for symmetric peer-to-peer server communication and caching; in addition, it includes support for extensibility via the value-added server facility. Like our previous system, EXODUS, we will make the Shore system publicly available via anonymous FTP; we expect the first release of Shore to occur in mid-1994.



Marvin Solomon
Fri Aug 2 13:38:53 CDT 1996