Although much work in the area of Active Database Management Systems (ADBMS
s) has been done, it is not yet clear how the performance of an active DBMS
can be evaluated systematically. In this paper, we describe the OBJECTIVE
Benchmark for object-oriented ADBMSs, and present experimental results from
its implementation in an active database system prototype. OBJECTIVE can b
e used to identify performance bottlenecks and active functionalities of an
ADBMS, and to compare the performance of multiple ADBMSs. (C) 1999 Publish
ed by Elsevier Science Inc. All rights reserved.