A persistent data storage design for real-time interactive applications

Author

Knemeyer, M. ; Nsaif, M. ; Glinka, F. ; Ploss, A. ; Gorlatch, S.

Author_Institution

Dept. of Comput. Sci., Univ. of Muenster, Muenster, Germany

fYear

2013

fDate

22-24 Sept. 2013

Firstpage

51

Lastpage

56

Abstract

Real-time Online Interactive Applications (ROIA) like multiplayer online games usually work in a persistent environment (also called virtual world) which continues to exist and evolve also while the user is offline and away from the application. This paper deals with storing persistent data of real-time interactive applications in modern relational databases. We describe a preliminary design of the Entity Persistence Module (EPM) middleware which liberates the application developer from writing and maintaining complex and error-prone, application-specific code for persistent data management.

Keywords

application program interfaces; computer games; interactive systems; middleware; real-time systems; relational databases; storage management; ROIA; application developer; entity persistence module middleware; modern relational databases; multiplayer online games; persistent data management; persistent data storage design; real-time online interactive applications; Avatars; Computer architecture; Games; Memory; Relational databases; Servers;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Intelligent Software Methodologies, Tools and Techniques (SoMeT), 2013 IEEE 12th International Conference on

Conference_Location

Budapest

Print_ISBN

978-1-4799-0419-8

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/SoMeT.2013.6645659

Filename

6645659