Traditional relational database management systems (DBMSs), consisting of a set of persistent relations, a set of well-defined operations, and highly optimized query processing and transaction management components, have been researched for over thirty years and are used for a wide range of applications. Typically, data processed by a DBMS is less frequently updated, and a snapshot of the database is used for processing queries. Abstractions derived from the applications for which a DBMS [1–10] is intended, such as consistency, concurrency, recovery, and optimization have received a lot of attention.
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Chakravarthy, S., Jiang, Q. (2009). INTRODUCTION. In: Stream Data Processing: A Quality of Service Perspective. Advances in Database Systems, vol 36. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-71003-7_1
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