FROGLINGO - A Monolithic Alternative to DBMS, Programming Language, Web Server and File System

Kevin H. Xu, Jingsong Zhang, Shelby Gao

2010

Abstract

Application software started with a monolithic architecture in the 1960s, i.e., a single executable file for the entire application. For better productivity in software development, software application in a typical corporate environment today consists of multiple components including off-the-shelf products. Froglingo is a unified solution for database management and programming language. It is an alternative to the combination of software technologies including DBMS, programming language, web server, and file system. The Enterprise-Participant (EP) data model, Froglingo without variables, is a computer language equivalent to a class of total recursive functions. It brings the monolith back to application software. In this paper, we show that Froglingo is a monolith and demonstrate that this monolith with the EP data model improves the productivity in both software development and software maintenance.

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Paper Citation

in Harvard Style

H. Xu K., Zhang J. and Gao S. (2010). FROGLINGO - A Monolithic Alternative to DBMS, Programming Language, Web Server and File System . In Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE, ISBN 978-989-8425-21-8, pages 247-252. DOI: 10.5220/0002923202470252

in Bibtex Style

@conference{enase10,
author={Kevin H. Xu and Jingsong Zhang and Shelby Gao},
title={FROGLINGO - A Monolithic Alternative to DBMS, Programming Language, Web Server and File System},
booktitle={Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,},
year={2010},
pages={247-252},
publisher={SciTePress},
organization={INSTICC},
doi={10.5220/0002923202470252},
isbn={978-989-8425-21-8},
}

in EndNote Style

TY - CONF
JO - Proceedings of the Fifth International Conference on Evaluation of Novel Approaches to Software Engineering - Volume 1: ENASE,
TI - FROGLINGO - A Monolithic Alternative to DBMS, Programming Language, Web Server and File System
SN - 978-989-8425-21-8
AU - H. Xu K.
AU - Zhang J.
AU - Gao S.
PY - 2010
SP - 247
EP - 252
DO - 10.5220/0002923202470252