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---++++Paradise Project
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*Goal:*
The stated goal of this project is to "apply object-oriented and parallel database technology to the task of implementing a parallel GIS system capable of managing extremely large (multi-terabyte) data sets such as those that will be produced by the upcoming NASA EOSDIS project. [1]"

*Overview:*
Paradise is an extended object-relational database system: not only does it support the standard data types, but it also has "built-in support" for vector and raster data (i.e., raster, polygon, polyline, poine, circle data types) [3].

*Features:*
   * Employs parallelism
   * All data types, both standard and GIS, are implemented as ADTs (in C++)

*Concerns:*


*References:* 
(1) Paradise: A Database System for GIS Applications.  ACM Sigmod 1995.
(2) Patel, J. et al. Building a Scalable Geo-Spatial DBMS: Technology, Implementation, and Evaluation. ACM Sigmod 1997.
(3) The Paradise Project.  http://www.cs.wisc.edu/paradise/


-- Main.AprilWebster - 22 Feb 2007

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