DATAPLEX is a heterogeneous distributed database management system (HDDBMS) being developed by General Motors Research Laboratories.
Design and implementation of a heterogeneous distributed database management system. In Proceedings of the IEEE INFOCOM '89 8th Annual Joint Conference of the IEEE Computer and Communications Societies (Ottawa, Ont., Canada, Apr.
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