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DB-MAIN

  • Type: CASE and MetaCASE environment
  • Description: Graphical CASE tool that supports most database engineering processes. Provides functions for conceptual information analysis, logical design, physical design, code generation, schema integration, schema normalization, quality evaluation, schema mapping, reverse engineering (for a dozen legacy and modern DBMS), schema analysis, code analysis (a.o., depency graphs, pattern searching and program slicing), data analysis, schema transformation. High speed kernel and graphical interface written in C++. New functions can be developed in Voyager 2 (the DB-MAIN external language) or in Java. DB-MAIN includes a method engine and features to extend its meta-schema. It allows the representation of data structures of various paradigms and at any level of abstraction. It relies on the GER (Generic Entity-relatinship model) and on transformational operators.
  • Requirements: MS Windows. A Linux version is under test.
  • Date: 1993-2010+
  • Status: ongoing
  • Availability: Free of charge (except for advanced processors). See below
  • References and resources:

TRAMIS/Master

  • Type: CASE environment
  • Description: TRAMIS/Master was an extension of ORGA distributed by the small French company CONCIS. In particular, the following features were added:
  • support for conceptual analysis
  • a larger transformation toolbox
  • evaluation functions (notably volume estimation)
  • the specification database was implemented in MDBS (a CODASYL-like DBMS)
  • Requirements: MS-DOS; MS Windows 3.11; MDBS
  • Date: 1986-1991
  • Status: discontinued; principles integrated into DB-MAIN
  • Availability: software no longer available
  • References and resources:
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut,Mario Cadelli,Bernard Decuyper and Olivier Marchand. TRAMIS:a transformation-based database CASE tool, in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, EC2 Publish., 1992. [description]
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Mario Cadelli, Bernard Decuyper and Olivier Marchand. Database CASE Tool Architecture : Principles for Flexible Design Strategies, in Proceedings of the 4th International Conference on Advanced Information System Engineering (CAiSE’92), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 593, pages 187-207, Springer-Verlag, 1992. [description]


ORGA

  • Type: CASE environment
  • Description: ORGA was a companion CASE tool of the industrial IDA environment developed by the team of professor F. Bodard in the 80's and distributed (as well as ORGA) by METSI, a small French company in Information system design. IDA was mainly devoted to the conceptual specification of various aspects of Information systems. The goal of ORGA was the translation of information conceptual schemas into DDL code according to three data models, namely relational (SQL-87), CODASYL DDL (IDS2) and standard files (COBOL). In modern words, ORGA supported the logical design and code generation processes. Three key features of ORGA:
  • the architecture of ORGA relies on a transformational toolbox. The conceptual/logical conversion was based on three transformation plans, one for each target data model. In addition, the user was allowed to apply elementary transformations to refine the logical schema. In modern words, ORGA supported Model-Driven Engineering.
  • ORGA was developed in C and the specification database was managed through libraries emulating dBASE III structures [1] [2].
  • The methodological principles of ORGA were developed in the (French) book Conception assistée des applications informatiques - Conception de la base de données, published by Masson (now DUNOD) in 1986.
  • Requirements: MS-DOS; hard disk (recommended!)
  • Date: 1984-1985
  • Status: discontinued; principles integrated into TRAMIS/Master then in DB-MAIN
  • Availability: software no longer available
  • References and resources:
    • see TRAMIS/Master


PHENIX

  • Type: Reverse Engineering CASE environment
  • Description:
  • Requirements: Unix, LeLisp, SMECI, Aida/Masai
  • Date: 1989-1992
  • Status: discontinued; principles integrated into DB-MAIN
  • Availability: software no longer available
  • References and resources:
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Catherine Tonneau, Michel Joris and Muriel Chandelon. Transformation-based Database Reverse Engineering, in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on Entity-Relationship Approach (ER’93), Lecture Notes in Computer Science, Volume 823, pages 364-375, Springer-Verlag, 1994. [description]
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Muriel Chandelon, Catherine Tonneau and Michel Joris. Contribution to a Theory of Database Reverse Engineering, in Proceedings of the 1st Working Conference on Reverse Engineering (WCRE’93), pages 161-170, IEEE Computer Society, 1993. [description]
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Catherine Tonneau, Michel Joris and Muriel Chandelon. Schema Transformation Techniques for Database Reverse Engineering, in Proceedings of 12th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach (ER’93), pages 353-372, E/R Institute Publish., 1993. [description]
    • Michel Joris, R. Hoe, Jean-Luc Hainaut, Muriel Chandelon, Tonneau Catherine and Bodart François. PHENIX : methods and tools for database reverse engineering, in Proceedings of 5th International Conference on Software Engineering and Applications, EC2 Publish., 1992. [description]
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut. Database Reverse Engineering, Models, Techniques and Strategies, in Proceedings of the 10th International Conference on the Entity-Relationship Approach (ER’91), pages 729-741, ER Institute, 1991. [description] [full text]


VisiComp

  • Type: Graphical computer simulator
  • Description:
  • Requirements: TRS-80 Model 1 - Level 2 (16 KB RAM); CP/M
  • Date: 1982
  • Status: discontinued
  • Availability: Source code available on paper
  • References and resources:
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, THE VISIBLE COMPUTER - A graphical computer simulator. Technical report, 1982. 75 pages. [TBA]
    • Source code available on paper (anyone interested?)


NDBS

  • Type: Database Management System
  • Description: NDBS (Network Database System) is an educational database management environment allowing Turbo-Pascal programs to manage and use complex data in an efficient, though very intuitive, way. NDBS comprised a runtime library (database handler), a DDL compiler, a 4GL Query Language, a data dictionary, a report generator, a SQL/NDBS converter, an import/export tool, etc. As far as we now, the only industrial use was by an Indian Statistics department, which developed several applications programs based on NDBS. The last version (under the name Pyramid) was developed by D. Rossi, then Master student in the University of Namur. Two original aspects: (1) the data model was a variant of the ER model, (2) the physical engine was a fairly strict implementation of the principles developed in the course of Database Technology I gave in the 80's.
  • Requirements: Windows; written in Turbo-Pascal
  • Date: 1986-1996
  • Status: discontinued
  • Availability: source code.
  • References and resources:
    • Documentation [TBA]


SQL-Script Interpreter

  • Type: Interpreter for an SQL-based scripting language
  • Description: Empty Access application (*.mdb) that allows users to execute SQL scripts on any database. Includes a simple dialog box with two buttons: select a script file and execute it. For information, MS Access provides two ways to execute SQL statements: as Access queries (simple but single queries only) and embedded in VB programs (powerful but complex). This tool allows one to execute in one click a script made up of a sequence of SQL statements, but also much more complex scripts with variables, macros, loops, alternatives and interaction with users.
  • Requirements: Microsoft Access
  • Date: 2005-2010+
  • Status: ongoing
  • Availability: available online
  • References and resources:


SPHINX

  • Type: Database Management System, Natural Language interface, Data dictionary
  • Description:
  • Requirements: Siemens BS-2000; SESAM data manager;
  • Date: 1971-1977
  • Status: discontinued
  • Availability: software no longer available
  • References and resources:
    • SPHINX Project final report. 1978. Not yet online.
    • Baudouin Le Charlier and Jean-Luc Hainaut. Modèles, Langages et Systèmes pour la conception et l’exploitation de bases de données, in Actes du congrès AFCET 1978, pages 179-189, Editions Hommes et Techniques, 1978. [description] [full text]
    • Claude Deheneffe and Henri Hennebert. NUL: A Navigational User’s Language for a Network Structured Data Base, in Proceedings of the 1976 ACM SIGMOD International Conference on Management of Data, pages 135-142, ACM, 1976. [description] [full text]
    • Claude Deheneffe, Henri Hennebert and Walter Paulus. A Relational Model for a Data Base, in Proceedings of the IFIP congress 74, pages 1022-1025, North-Holland, 1974. [description] [full text]
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut and Baudouin Le Charlier. An Extensible Semantic Model of Data Base and Its Data language, in Proceedings of the IFIP Congress 74, pages 1026-1030, North-Holland, 1974. [description] [full text]
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Baudouin Le Charlier, et al., Système de conception et d'exploitation de bases de données - Volume 1 : Modèles et Langages. Rapport final du projet CIPS I2/15, Institut d'informatique, Université de Namur, 1978
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Baudouin Le Charlier, et al., Système de conception et d'exploitation de bases de données - Volume 2 : Manuel de référence des langages. Rapport final du projet CIPS I2/15, Institut d'informatique, Université de Namur, 1978
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Baudouin Le Charlier, et al., Système de conception et d'exploitation de bases de données - Volume 3 : Une implémentation du modèle d'accès. Rapport final du projet CIPS I2/15, Institut d'informatique, Université de Namur, 1978
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Baudouin Le Charlier, et al., Système de conception et d'exploitation de bases de données - Volume 4 : Le système SPHINX, Utilisation, fonctionnement et description interne. Rapport final du projet CIPS I2/15, Institut d'informatique, Université de Namur, 1978
    • Jean-Luc Hainaut, Baudouin Le Charlier, et al., Système de conception et d'exploitation de bases de données - Volume 5 : Exemples d'application. Rapport final du projet CIPS I2/15, Institut d'informatique, Université de Namur, 1978
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