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Active rules provide a new and important method for designing databases and the subject is seeing an increasing amount of attention from commercial database companies. This book provides a timely survey of the field from the point of view of some of the subject's most active researchers. The book is divided into several parts, organized by theme: the first, Fundamentals covers the underlying methodology reagrding active rules, next comes a collection of chapters which cover formal specification, rule analysis, performance analysis, and support tools, the third part is devoted to a number of chapters covering the implementation of active rules in a number of commercial systems. Finally, come sections on applications and future directions that research may take. All researchers in databases will find this provides a valuable overview of this topic.
Table des matières
I Fundamentals.- 1 Introduction.- 2 Architecture of Active Database Systems.- Advanced Topics.- 3 Rule Analysis.- 4 Optimization.- 5 Monitoring Complex Rule Conditions.- 6 Performance Assessment.- 7 Tool Support.- 8 ECA Functionality in a Distributed Environment.- 9 Comparing Deductive and Active Databases.- III Systems.- 10 Active Database Features in SQL3.- 11 Ariel.- 12 SAMOS.- 13 EXACT: An Approach to Coping with Heterogeneous Rule Execution Models.- 14 REACH.- 15 NAOS.- 16 PFL: An Active Functional DBPL.- 17 Chimera: A Language for Designing Rule Applications.- 18 RAP: The ROCK & ROLL Active Programming System.- IV Applications.- 19 Database Internal Applications.- 20 Active Database Systems: Expectations, Commercial Experience, and Beyond.- 21 Active Real-Time Database Systems.- V Summary.- 22 Summary.
Résumé
This book describes rules for active database systems. It details methodologies, formal specifications, rule analysis, performance analysis, support tools, applications, implementation of active rules in commercial systems and future directions for research.
