The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System

The HiPAC project is investigating active, time-constrained databasemanagment. An active DBMS is one which automatically executes specified actions when speciifed conditions arise. HiPAC has proposedEvent-ConditionAction (ECA) rules as a formalism for active database capabilities. We have also developedan execution model thatspeicifeshow theserules areprocessedin thecontext of databasetransactions.The additional functionality provided by ECA rules makes new demandson the design of an active DBMS. In this paperweproposean architecturefor an active DBMS that supports ECA rules. This architectureprovidesnew formsof interaction, in supportof ECA rules, between application programs and thDBMS.This leads to a new paradigm for constructing databaseapplications. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the ACM copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1989
• Where: SIGMOD
• Authors: Dennis R. McCarthy, Umeshwar Dayal
• Keywords: Active Dbms, Database, ECA Rules, SIGMOD 1989, Supportof Eca Rules