Chimera is a novel database model and language which has been designed as a joint conceptual interface of the IDEA project, a major European cooperation initiative aiming at the integration of object-oriented, active and deductive database technology. The most remarkable characteristic of Chimera is the fact that fully developed rule languages for both active and deductive rules have been integrated in an object-oriented context. Rules are in the center of interest of the IDEA project, which aims at developing prototypical components of a future ``intelligent'' DBMS.
The University of Bonn has been involved in a series of publications presenting the Chimera Model and Language. We have also implemented the Chimera Prototyping Tool as a graphical tool for the design of Chimera applications.
For an introductory overview of Chimera, please have a look at the following pages:
The Chimera overview provided on these pages has been drawn from a joint publication of Stefano Ceri and Rainer Manthey. The paper is available as a single PostScript file too. LaTeX2HTML was used to produce the HTML pages from the original LaTeX source.