Component Database Systems is a collection of invited chapters by the researchers making the most influential contributions in the database industry's trend toward componentization.

This book represents the sometimes-divergent, sometimes-convergent approaches taken by leading database vendors as they seek to establish commercially viable componentization strategies. Together, these contributions form the first book devoted entirely to the technical and architectural design of component-based database systems. In addition to detailing the current state of their research, the authors also take up many of the issues affecting the likely future directions of component databases.

If you have a stake in the evolution of any of today's leading database systems, this book will make fascinating reading. It will also help prepare you for the technology that is likely to become widely available over the next several years.

Chapter 1 - Component Database Systems: Introduction, Foundations and Overview
Chapter 2 - Distributed Component Database Management Systems
Chapter 3 - All Your Data: The Oracle Extensibility Architecture
Chapter 4 - Extensible Indexing Support in DB2 Universal Database
Chapter 5 - Enabling Component Databases with OLE DB
Chapter 6 - An Architecture for Transparent Access to Diverse Data Sources
Chapter 7 Building Component Database Systems Using CORBA
Chapter 8 - The Architecture of a Database System for Mobile and Embedded Devices
Chapter 9 - Conclusions and Perspectives