With SIARD (Software Independent Archiving of Relational Databases), the Swiss Federal Archives (SFA) provides a sustainable solution for the long-term preservation of relational databases. This includes an open format for archiving of relational databases as well as a software package - "SIARD Suite" - for converting relational databases into the SIARD format. SIARD Suite is based on international standards such as XML, SQL:1999 and UNICODE. At present the application supports the following databases: Oracle, Microsoft SQL Server und Microsoft Access. The Swiss Federal Archives distributes the SIARD Suite free of charge, according to the license agreement. database preservation. preservation of databases.
Remember when the Object database was going to kill the Relational database?
OOP was the sexy programming model, and relational set theory seemed so quaint. Once you are using Objects, why wouldn’t you just want to persist them instead of having to drop down to this crazy SQL? Inner joins instead of just person.name.first? Fools.
This article is part of a series. You do not have to read them in order but I will be referring to topics and explanations in previous articles: Implementing Your Own Transactions with MVCCSQL Transaction Isolation Levels ExplainedImplementing Repeatable ...
Written 100% in JavaScript to run in any Web Browser and on any Platform. It parses and executes SQL dynamically in the browser, returning results formatted for RIA Frameworks or directly for inserting into HTML.
SEAD is an NSF-sponsored project to create data services designed to meet the needs of sustainability science research. Sustainability science requires reliable cyberinfrastructure and an enhanced ability to manage, integrate, interpret, share, curate, and preserve data across a broad range of physical and social science disciplines.