The Heterogeneity Problem and Middleware Technology: Experiences with and Performance of Database Gateways

Summary: Compares three database gateways as middleware for heterogeneous data sources, evaluating transparency, transactions, SQL/DDL/DML, integrity, security, scalability, optimization, and portability. An adapted AS^3AP benchmark provides an exhaustive empirical performance comparison. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8675
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1998
Pagerank: 5.4718783e-05
Overall Rank: 8,182 | 43.87%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Fernando de Ferreira Rezende (Daimler-Benz AG)
2. Klaudia Hergula (Daimler-Benz AG)

BibTeX Citation

@article{rezende_vldb98,
        title = {{The Heterogeneity Problem and Middleware Technology: Experiences with and Performance of Database Gateways}},
        author = {Rezende, Fernando de Ferreira and Hergula, Klaudia},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '98},
        year = {1998}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

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Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
5,882	Heterogeneous Database Query Optimization in DB2 Universal DataJoiner	1998	VLDB	6.0518777e-05

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