Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules for Advanced Database Processing

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Overview

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

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

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Covers the vast research literature and commercial advancements in the area of active database systems, providing developers, researchers, and other computer professionals with a comprehensive guide to the field. The volume begins with an introduction to the field of active database systems, followed by seven chapters that cover seven of the most prominent research projects in active database systems, four based on relational database systems and three based on object-oriented database systems. The projects covered are POSTGRES, Ariel, Starburst, A-RDL, Chimera, HiPAC, and Ode. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Jennifer Widom, Stanford University and Stefano Ceri, Politecnico di Milano

Stefano Ceri is Professor of Database Systems at Politecnico di Milano. His research interests are focused on extending database technology to incorporate data distribution, deductive and active rules, and object orientation.

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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

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