SourceForge.net: Raquel DB System - Project Web Hosting

General

The project was registered on SourceForge.net on
3 September, 2009.

The purpose of using SourceForge is to :

Provide a means for program code to be downloaded & installed.
Use SF's 'Subversion' repository to support & manage the development of the program source code.
Use SF's 'wiki' facility to document all aspects of the implementation of the Raquel DB System, together with ancilliary products & code. (This documentation expands as the implementation proceeds). Home Wiki Page is the root of the wiki hierarchy.
Use SF's 'Tickets' facility for bugs, etc.
Employ other SF facilities as may be useful.

The SourceForge Technical Summary Page is the starting point to access the above SourceForge tools.

The Northumbria RAQUEL Database System website provides comprehensive information about the vision, specification, and design of the RAQUEL language and the RAQUEL DBMS & its architecture.

The above 2 Internet locations, which are interlinked by URLs, are the 2 main sites of the Raquel Database System project, ("raqueldbsystem").
This page is the Home Web Site of the project on SourceForge.

Project Information

RAQUEL is the name of a relational database programming language
and also
RAQUEL is the name of the database management system that executes that language.

Open Source Project: The RAQUEL Database System is an Open Source Project.
A prototype of the DBMS is being developed into a usable system; a single-user system will come first, and eventually evolve into a multi-user system.
A GUI application has been developed as a DBMS 'frontend' so users can try out the RAQUEL notation.
Contributors to the project are welcome.
C++ programming contributions would be particularly welcome, but there are a number of other forms of contribution which would also be useful.

Planned Benefits of the RAQUEL Database System: Language
An entirely algebraic language, more powerful, flexible and easier-to-use than SQL. It is extendable so that it can manipulate a variety of different kinds of data stored in relations (i.e. is automatically object-relational).
DBMS
A modular stack architecture that can be tailored to different kinds of circumstances. It also accommodates plug-ins to support different kinds of data, and (to maximise performance) different kinds of physical storage.

Raquel Software
Available for Downloading
in "LinuxTarFiles" :

A prototype RAQUEL DBMS.
A GUI designed as a "Raquel Teaching Tool" for creating and sending statements to the DBMS, and displaying the results.

Standard Open Source Information Files + Supplementary Files

README - important information.
INSTALL.DBMS+GUI - installation instructions.
INSTALLED - overview of installation.
INSTALLATION_FILES - list of Autotool files used to install the software.
SOFTWARE_DEPENDENCIES - dependencies of the Raquel DBMS and GUI/Teaching Tool.

The project uses the LGPL Open Source license.
See COPYING.LESSER and COPYING for license details.

For the DBMS :
- FEATURES.DBMS file.
- CHANGES.DBMS file.
For the GUI/Teaching Tool :
- FEATURES.GUI file.
- CHANGES.GUI file.
- TCLTK_ON_LINUX file - installing Tcl/Tk on Linux.

See Structures & Policy for an overview of how the Subversion repository on Sourceforge is organised.

FAQ - Installing the RAQUEL GUI/Teaching Tool

All the above files are also included in the relevant downloads.

Raquel Database System Web Site

General

Project Information

Raquel Software Available for Downloading in "LinuxTarFiles" :

Standard Open Source Information Files + Supplementary Files

Raquel Software
Available for Downloading
in "LinuxTarFiles" :