The Starburst active database rule system

Author

Widom, Jennifer

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Stanford Univ., CA, USA

Volume

8

Issue

4

fYear

1996

fDate

8/1/1996 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

583

Lastpage

595

Abstract

The paper describes the development of the Starburst Rule System, an active database rules facility integrated into the Starburst extensible relational database system at the IBM Almaden Research Center. The Starburst rule language is based on arbitrary database state transitions rather than tuple or statement level changes, yielding a clear and flexible execution semantics. The rule system has been implemented completely. Its rapid implementation was facilitated by the extensibility features of Starburst, and rule management and rule processing are integrated into all aspects of database processing

Keywords

active databases; deductive databases; knowledge based systems; logic programming languages; relational databases; Starburst active database rule system; Starburst extensible relational database system; Starburst rule language; active database rules facility; arbitrary database state transitions; database processing; extensibility features; flexible execution semantics; rule management; rule processing; Algorithm design and analysis; Authorization; Automatic control; Concurrency control; Database systems; Error correction; Expert systems; Production systems; Relational databases; Spatial databases;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Knowledge and Data Engineering, IEEE Transactions on

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-4347

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/69.536251

Filename

536251