Bolo's Niagara Notes

These are my notes on the Niagara XML Databse system.

Niagara

• Compiling Niagara
• Configuring Niagara at Run-Time
• Purifying & Quantifying Niagara
• Feng's DM Document
• Larger scale problems in Niagara_3
• Larger scale problems in Niagara
• Local Berkeley DB Documentation
• 3rd Party software used by Niagara
• Niagara Mailing List Archive (AFS-only)
• Plans for the future of the Niagara Codebase
• Tweaks to configure and debug Niagara
• Views of Niagara
• XML Resources

Niagara Code Notes

The source for these documents can be found in ~bolo/public/niagara/code_notes, along with a Makefile to make ascii or Postscript output.

• C++ Constructors, Destructors, and Assignment Operators
• Coding Guidelines
• Coding Guidelines Example
• Ownership of Memory and Pointer Issues
• Source Code Control System Use

Niagara Vignettes

A copy of the source of the vignettes can be found in ~bolo/public/niagara/vignette. There is a Makefile which will produce either postscript or text-for-terminal output.

• Indexing Attributes
• Temporary XML Representation
• DTD Handling and Use
• Grouping and Aggregation
• Incremental Evaluator
• Multi-Attribute Indices
• Index Manager Structure
• XML Numbering
• Operations for Niagara
• Operators for Niagara
• XML Parse Events
• Example Parse Events
• Parse Streams
• Incremental Evaluation
• Query Enging Streams
• Search Engine Streams
• Tuples