Source : WordNet®

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

Source : Free On-Line Dictionary of Computing

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)