Everything about Navigational database
Database in which records or objects are found by following references from other objects
A navigational database is a type of database in which records or objects are found primarily by following references from other objects. The term was popularized by the title of Charles Bachman's 1973 Turing Award paper, The Programmer as Navigator. This paper emphasized the fact that the new disk-based database systems allowed the programmer to choose arbitrary navigational routes following relationships from record to record, contrasting this with the constraints of earlier magnetic-tape and punched card systems where data access was strictly sequential. Wikipedia →
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- Read the overview: Navigational databaseA 5-minute orientation
- Pick up a classic book: Coast GuardThe most-reprinted book on the subject
- Read the landmark paper: Wayfinding in an electronic database: The relative importance of navigational cues vs. mental modelsCited 32 times
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🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)
Wayfinding in an electronic database: The relative importance of navigational cues vs. mental models
Database Pointers in Navigational and Object–Oriented Database Management Systems
On the maintenance experience of navigational hydraulic structures database
The Development and Analysis of a Navigational Incident Database for Naval Vessels
Estimation of Ship Fuel Oil Consumption on Navigational Routes Using Database-Based Performance Prediction
đź“š Books worth reading
- 📕Coast GuardUnited States. General Accounting Office · 1980
- 📕Navigation Data Center user's guideNavigation Data Center (U.S.) · 1995
- 📕AstroNavPC and compact data 2001-2005 · 2001
- 📕Customizing and extending IBM Content NavigatorWei-Dong Jackie Zhu · 2014
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