Semantically Rich API for In-database Data Manipulation in Main-memory ERP Systems.

Assuming the feasibility of main-memory database management systems, the current research aims at designing a new type of data manipulation API, called Business Object Query Language (BOQL), specifically tailored for in-database data manipulation in main-memory ERP systems. The paper contributes the concept of business object virtualization and describes a query processor that takes advantage of this concept. The first serves as a means of grouping raw memory-resident data into high-level data structures, while the second exposes a flexible query-like API to manipulate the high-level data structures. Special effort has been dedicated to integrating the API into C++ programming language.