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Description
Kappa was a parallel DBMS designed for knowledge information processing (KIPS). The name Kappa is an acronym for **K**nowledge **APP**lication oriented **A**dvanced DBMS.
  1. https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/FGCS/FGCS92en-proc1/92ePVCK-2.pdf
Kappa was a parallel DBMS designed for knowledge information processing (KIPS). The name Kappa is an acronym for **K**nowledge **APP**lication oriented **A**dvanced DBMS.
  1. https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/FGCS/FGCS92en-proc1/92ePVCK-2.pdf
History
Kappa was developed as part of the the "Fifth Generation Computer Systems" initiative in the 1980s by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming.
  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems
Kappa was developed as part of the the "Fifth Generation Computer Systems" initiative in the 1980s by Japan's Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) to create computers using massively parallel computing and logic programming. The last version of Kappa was released in 1999.
  1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Generation_Computer_Systems
Start Year 1989 1989
End Year 1999
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Countries Japan Japan
Former Names
Website URL https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/SOFTWARE/KAPPA/outline-E.html https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/SOFTWARE/KAPPA/outline-E.html
Docs URL https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/SOFTWARE/KAPPA/pdst-E/pdst-E.html https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/SOFTWARE/KAPPA/pdst-E/pdst-E.html
Source Repo URL https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/IFS/abst/087.html
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Licenses
Proprietary
Proprietary
Operating Systems
Solaris
Governance
Project Types
Industrial Research
Industrial Research Open Source
Supported Languages
Written In
C
Coding Agents
Developer Orgs
Institute for New Generation Telecommunications
Institute for New Generation Telecommunications Institute for New Generation Computer Technology
Derived From
Embedded Systems
Inspired By
Compatible With
Hosted Services
Acquisitions
Checkpoints
Compression
Concurrency Control
Data Model
Relational
Kappa uses a "nested relational model" that is similar to the document model in that it supported non-scalar values (e.g., arrays, nested records). It is seen as a precursor to object-relational model.
  1. https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/SOFTWARE/KAPPA/pdst-E/node8.html#SECTION00022200000000000000
Relational
Kappa uses a "nested relational model" that is similar to the document model in that it supported non-scalar values (e.g., arrays, nested records). It is seen as a precursor to object-relational model.
  1. https://www.airc.aist.go.jp/aitec-icot/ICOT/Museum/SOFTWARE/KAPPA/pdst-E/node8.html#SECTION00022200000000000000
Fault Tolerance
Foreign Keys
Hardware Acceleration
Indexes
Isolation Levels
Joins
Logging
Parallel Execution
Intra-Operator (Horizontal)
Intra-Operator (Horizontal)
Query Compilation
Query Execution
Query Interface
Custom API
Custom API
Storage Architecture
Storage Format
Storage Model
Storage Organization
Stored Procedures
System Architecture
Shared-Nothing
Shared-Nothing
User-Defined Functions
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