Main description:
Active database systems enhance traditional database functionality with powerful rule-processing capabilities, providing a uniform and efficient mechanism for many database system applications. Among these applications are integrity constraints, views, authorization, statistics gathering, monitoring and alerting, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, and workflow management. This significant collection focuses on the most prominent research projects in active database systems. The project leaders for each prototype system provide detailed discussions of their projects and the relevance of their results to the future of active database systems.
- A broad overview of current active database systems and how they can be extended and improved
- A comprehensive introduction to the core topics of the field, including its motivation and history
- Coverage of active database (trigger) capabilities in commercial products
- Discussion of forthcoming standards
Table of contents:
1 Introduction to Active Database Systems Jennifer Widom and Stefano
2 The POSTGRES Rule System Spyros Potamianos and Michael Stonebraker
3 The Ariel Project Eric N. Hanson
4 The Starburst Rule System Jennifer Widom
5 The A-RDL System Eric Simon and Jerry Kiernan
6 Active Rule Management in Chimera Stefano Ceri, Pietro Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi, and Letizia Branca
7 The HiPAC Project Umeshwar Dayal, Alejandro P. Buchmann, and Sharma Chakravarthy
8 Active Database Facilities in Ode Narain Gehani and H. V. Jagadish
9 Standards and Commercial System Stefano Ceri and Jennifer Widom
10 Applications of Active Databases Stefano Ceri and Jennifer Widom
11 Conclusions and Future Directions Jennifer Widom and Stefano Ceri
Active database systems enhance traditional database functionality with powerful rule-processing capabilities, providing a uniform and efficient mechanism for many database system applications. Among these applications are integrity constraints, views, authorization, statistics gathering, monitoring and alerting, knowledge-based systems, expert systems, and workflow management. This significant collection focuses on the most prominent research projects in active database systems. The project leaders for each prototype system provide detailed discussions of their projects and the relevance of their results to the future of active database systems.
- A broad overview of current active database systems and how they can be extended and improved
- A comprehensive introduction to the core topics of the field, including its motivation and history
- Coverage of active database (trigger) capabilities in commercial products
- Discussion of forthcoming standards
Table of contents:
1 Introduction to Active Database Systems Jennifer Widom and Stefano
2 The POSTGRES Rule System Spyros Potamianos and Michael Stonebraker
3 The Ariel Project Eric N. Hanson
4 The Starburst Rule System Jennifer Widom
5 The A-RDL System Eric Simon and Jerry Kiernan
6 Active Rule Management in Chimera Stefano Ceri, Pietro Fraternali, Stefano Paraboschi, and Letizia Branca
7 The HiPAC Project Umeshwar Dayal, Alejandro P. Buchmann, and Sharma Chakravarthy
8 Active Database Facilities in Ode Narain Gehani and H. V. Jagadish
9 Standards and Commercial System Stefano Ceri and Jennifer Widom
10 Applications of Active Databases Stefano Ceri and Jennifer Widom
11 Conclusions and Future Directions Jennifer Widom and Stefano Ceri