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Active Database, Active Database (Management) System

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An active database (aDB) or active database (management) system (aDBS/aDBMS) is a database (management) system that supports reactive behavior through ECA rules.

Historical Background

The term active database was first used in the early 1980s [12]. Some related active database work was also done within the area of expert database systems in the mid 1980s, but it was not until the mid/late 1980s that the research on supporting ECA rules in database systems took off, for example [10, 12, 18]. During the 1990s, the area was extensively explored through more than 20 suggested active database prototypes and a large body of publications:

  • Seven workshops were held between 1993 and 1997: RIDS [12, 16, 17], RIDE-ADS [20], Dagstuhl Seminar [5], and ARTDB [3, 4].

  • Two special issues of journals [8, 9] and one special issue of ACM SIGMOD Record [1].

  • Two textbooks [13, 19] and one ACM Computing Survey paper [15].

In addition, the groups within the ACT-NET consortium (A European research...

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  1. University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Mikael Berndtsson & Jonas Mellin

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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    M. Tamer Özsu

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Berndtsson, M., Mellin, J. (2017). Active Database, Active Database (Management) System. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_502-2

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