Aditi

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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  Aditi
       n : a Hindu goddess who releases from sin or disease; mother of
           the Adityas

From The Free On-line Dictionary of Computing (27 SEP 03) [foldoc]:



  Aditi
       
           The Aditi Deductive Database System.  A
          multi-user {deductive database} system from the Machine
          Intelligence Project at the {University of Melbourne}.  It
          supports base {relations} defined by {facts} (relations in the
          sense of {relational databases}) and {derived relations}
          defined by {rules} that specify how to compute new information
          from old information.
       
          Both base relations and the rules defining derived relations
          are stored on disk and are accessed as required during query
          evaluation.  The rules defining derived relations are
          expressed in a {Prolog}-like language, which is also used for
          expressing queries.
       
          Aditi supports the full structured data capability of Prolog.
          Base relations can store arbitrarily nested terms, for example
          arbitrary length lists, and rules can directly manipulate such
          terms.  Base relations can be indexed with {B-trees} or
          multi-level signature files.
       
          Users can access the system through a {Motif}-based query and
          database administration tool, or through a command line
          interface.  There is also in interface that allows {NU-Prolog}
          programs to access Aditi in a transparent manner.  Proper
          {transaction processing} is not supported in this release.
       
          The beta release runs on {SPARC}/{SunOS4}.1.2 and
          {MIPS}/{Irix}4.0.
       
          E-mail: .
       
          (1992-12-17)