Constraint Databases

by Gabriel Kuper (Editor), Leonid Libkin (Editor), Jan Paredaens (Editor)

This is the first comprehensive survey of the field of constraint databases, written by leading researchers. Constraint databases are a fairly new and active area of database research. Their ability to deal with infinite sets makes them particularly promising as a technology for integrating spatial and temporal data with standard relational databases. Constraint databases bring techniques from a variety of fields, such as logic and model theory, algebraic and computational geometry, as well as symbolic computation, to the design and analysis of data models and query languages.

445 pages, Paperback

First published April 12, 2000