Last Update:  December 12, 1996


Welcome to BUCKY.

In bucky.tar file you will find the programs to generate the BUCKY
database. To adjust the size of the BUCKY database, the constants in
the file buckygen.c need to be changed.

For relational data, "#define RELATIONAL" at the beginning of the file
buckygen.c (in the version that is available for downloaded this line
is commented out "//"). Type "make" and after the programs have been
compiled run "buckygen". The load files will have the extension .tbl.

For object-relational data, the define RELATIONAL in the file
buckygen.c should not be defined. Compile the programs and run the
script driver.sh. This script will generate object-relational
load-files with the extensions .cls. Note that intermediate files will
be generated that might take a lot of space. For the numbers in the
report (NUMSTUDENTS = 50000, NUMDEPTS = 250, TASPERDEPT = 100,
STAFFPERDEPT = 100, PROFSPERDEPT = 100, COURSESPERDEPT = 50,
SECTIONSPERCOURSE = 2, SEMESTERSPERSECTION = 2, STUDENTSPERSECTION =
20, COURSESPERSTUDENT = 2, MAJORPERCENT = 40), about 120 MB diskspace
is needed for the data generation process.


Mohammad Asgarian
Mike Carey
David DeWitt
Johannes Gehrke
Jeff Naughton
Dhaval Shah