Storage manager for computer system

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1998-04-21

1999-01-05

Von Buhr, Maria N.

Data processing: database and file management or data structures

Database design

Data structure types

707100, G06F 1730

Patent

active

058572074

ABSTRACT:
A data structure and associated data management methods for highly flexible storage of data for a wide variety of application programs. Data is stored as a plurality of Blops, each of which has a list of Properties associated with it. Each Property contains zero or more elements. Elements are Values, each of which has a Basic Type and consists of a variable length sequence of bytes. The Basic Type defines the format of the Value, as well as meta-information such as compression and encryption. Elements can also be Compound Types, which nestably refer to another list of Properties. Blops are stored in Containers, which map to the physical medium on which the data is stored. Containers associate respective Container Handlers which are specific to the Container's physical medium. Related Blops in a Container are organized into Pools of Blops. Each Container contains one or more Pools, each Pool having a unique name within the Container. A Pool contains multiple versions of a Blop. Versions of different Blops are grouped together in Layers in a Pool and each Layer contains at most one version of a Blop. Layers are related to each other as an acyclic digraph, where each Layer is above one or more Base Layers and has zero or more Layers above it. Each Layer presents a "view" to a user of the Blops in a pool, and thereby provides a mechanism to manipulate which versions of which Blops are to be used at any given time.

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