EARLY ACTIVE DATABASE EFFORTS - A CAPSULE SUMMARY

Authors
CHAKRAVARTHY S
Citation
S. Chakravarthy, EARLY ACTIVE DATABASE EFFORTS - A CAPSULE SUMMARY, IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering, 7(6), 1995, pp. 1008-1010
Citations number
20
Categorie Soggetti
Information Science & Library Science","Computer Sciences, Special Topics","Engineering, Eletrical & Electronic","Computer Science Artificial Intelligence
Journal title
IEEE transactions on knowledge and data engineering → ACNP
ISSN journal
10414347
Volume
7
Issue
6
Year of publication
1995
Pages
1008 - 1010
Database
ISI
SICI code
1041-4347(1995)7:6<1008:EADE-A>2.0.ZU;2-B
Abstract
Over the past few years, the topic of active databases has become an i mportant area of research, A number of efforts-both research prototype s and commercial database management systems (DBMSs)-have addressed su pport for event-condition-action (EGA) rule in databases, This paper e xamines the motivations for providing this capability, identifies feat ures that form the basis for supporting active functionality and provi des a capsule summary of active database features of early commercial systems as well as research prototypes. Three broad categories-rule ex pressiveness, execution semantics, and efficiency-are used for the cap sule summary.