Applying the Unbundling Process to Active Database Systems.
Year:
1998
Authors/Eds.:
Arne Koschel, Stella Gatziu, Hans Fritschi, and Günter von Bültzingsloewen.
Type of publication:
Arbeitskreis/Gremien/Verbände
Source:
In Proc. Intl. Workshop on Issues and Applications of Database Technology (IADT'98), pages 102 - 110, Berlin, Germany, July 1998.
Abstract:
New application areas or new technical innovations expect from database management systems more and more new functionality. However, adding functions to the DBMS as an integral part of them tends to create monoliths that are difficult to design, implement, validate, maintain and adapt. Such monoliths can be avoided if one configures DBMS according to the actually needed functionality. In order to identify the basic functional components for the configuration the current monoliths should be broken up into smaller units, or in other words they should be unbundled. In this paper we apply unbundling to active database systems. This results in a new form of active mechanisms where active functionality is no longer an integral part of the DBMS functionality. Furthermore, we give a discussion with problems and questions arising from the unbundling process. Eventually we show, how unbundling is exploited in two current projects, namely FRAMBOISE and C2offein, which represent examples for architectures, that result from two different unbundling steps.
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