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Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases.

Richard Hull, Dean Jacobs: Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases. VLDB 1991: 455-467
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  author    = {Richard Hull and
               Dean Jacobs},
  editor    = {Guy M. Lohman and
               Am\'{\i}lcar Sernadas and
               Rafael Camps},
  title     = {Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases},
  booktitle = {17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September
               3-6, 1991, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Proceedings},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1991},
  isbn      = {1-55860-150-3},
  pages     = {455-467},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/HullJ91.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/91},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
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Abstract

This paper presents database programming language constructs that can be used to realize a variety of different semantics for rule application in active database systems. The primary novel feature introduced is the "delayed update", or delta, which is a first-class value representing a set of proposed modifications to the underlying persistent store. Deltas can be created, inspected, and combined without committing to the given modifications. The utility of these concepts for expressing the semantics of active databases is demonstrated through a series of examples, including the presentation of theessential features of rule application in the AP5 system of USC/Information Sciences Institute and the Starburst Rule System being developed at IBM Almaden. Technical results concerning the simulatability of certain fundamental constructs by other fundamental constructs are also presented. The discussion is based on Heraclitus[Rel], an imperative language containing arelational calculus sublanguage and deltas.

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Guy M. Lohman, Amílcar Sernadas, Rafael Camps (Eds.): 17th International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, September 3-6, 1991, Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain, Proceedings. Morgan Kaufmann 1991, ISBN 1-55860-150-3
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Referenced by

  1. Detlef Zimmer, Rainer Unland: On the Semantics of Complex Events in Active Database Management Systems. ICDE 1999: 392-399
  2. Oscar Díaz, Arturo Jaime: EXACT: An Extensible Approach to Active Object-Oriented Databases. VLDB J. 6(4): 282-295(1997)
  3. Danilo Montesi, Elisa Bertino, Maurizio Martelli: Transactions and Updates in Deductive Databases. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 9(5): 784-797(1997)
  4. Weidong Chen: Programming with Logical Queries, Bulk Updates, and Hypothetical Reasoning. IEEE Trans. Knowl. Data Eng. 9(4): 587-599(1997)
  5. Divyakant Agrawal, Amr El Abbadi, Ambuj K. Singh, Tolga Yurek: Efficient View Maintenance at Data Warehouses. SIGMOD Conference 1997: 417-427
  6. Philippe Picouet, Victor Vianu: Expressiveness and Complexity of Active Databases. ICDT 1997: 155-172
  7. James Bailey, Guozhu Dong, Kotagiri Ramamohanarao: Structural Issues in Active Rule Systems. ICDT 1997: 203-214
  8. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Richard Hull, Dean Jacobs: Heraclitus: Elevating Deltas to be First-Class Citizens in a Database Programming Language. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 21(3): 370-426(1996)
  9. Richard Hull, Gang Zhou: A Framework for Supporting Data Integration Using the Materialized and Virtual Approaches. SIGMOD Conference 1996: 481-492
  10. Michael Doherty, Richard Hull, Mohammed Rupawalla: Structures for Manipulating Proposed Updates in Object-Oriented Databases. SIGMOD Conference 1996: 306-317
  11. Jennifer Widom, Stefano Ceri (Eds.): Active Database Systems: Triggers and Rules For Advanced Database Processing. Morgan Kaufmann 1996, ISBN 1-55860-304-2
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  12. Piero Fraternali, Letizia Tanca: A Structured Approach for the Definition of the Semantics of Active Databases. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 20(4): 414-471(1995)
  13. I-Min A. Chen, Richard Hull, Dennis McLeod: An Execution Model for Limited Ambiguity Rules and Its Application to Derived Data Update. ACM Trans. Database Syst. 20(4): 365-413(1995)
  14. Gang Zhou, Richard Hull, Roger King, Jean-Claude Franchitti: Data Integration and Warehousing Using H2O. IEEE Data Eng. Bull. 18(2): 29-40(1995)
  15. Timothy Griffin, Leonid Libkin: Incremental Maintenance of Views with Duplicates. SIGMOD Conference 1995: 328-339
  16. Philippe Picouet, Victor Vianu: Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases. PODS 1995: 126-138
  17. Danilo Montesi, Riccardo Torlone: A Transaction Transformation Approach to Active Rule Processing. ICDE 1995: 109-116
  18. Michael Doherty, Richard Hull, Marcia A. Derr, Jacques Durand: On Detecting Conflict Between Proposed Updates. DBPL 1995: 7
  19. Serge Abiteboul, Richard Hull, Victor Vianu: Foundations of Databases. Addison-Wesley 1995, ISBN 0-201-53771-0
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  20. Heinrich Jasper: Active Databases for Active Repositories. ICDE 1994: 375-384
  21. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Richard Hull, Dean Jacobs, Jaime Castillo, Martha Escobar-Molano, Shih-Hui Lu, Junhui Luo, Chiu Tsang, Gang Zhou: On Implementing a Language for Specifying Active Database Execution Models. VLDB 1993: 441-454
  22. Martha Escobar-Molano, Richard Hull, Dean Jacobs: Safety and Translation of Calculus Queries with Scalar Functions. PODS 1993: 253-264
  23. Anton P. Karadimce, Susan Darling Urban: A Framework for Declarative Updates and Constraint Maintenance in Object-Oriented Databases. ICDE 1993: 391-398
  24. Anthony J. Bonner, Michael Kifer, Mariano P. Consens: Database Programming in Transaction Logic. DBPL 1993: 309-337
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  26. Michael Kramer, Georg Lausen, Gunter Saake: Updates in a Rule-Based Language for Objects. VLDB 1992: 251-262
  27. Narain H. Gehani, H. V. Jagadish, Oded Shmueli: Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database. SIGMOD Conference 1992: 81-90
  28. Serge Abiteboul, Allen Van Gelder: Optimizing Active Databases using the Split Technique. ICDT 1992: 171-187
  29. Stefano Ceri: A Declarative Approach to Active Databases. ICDE 1992: 452-456
  30. Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Richard Hull, Dean Jacobs: Implementation of Delayed Updates in Heraclitus. EDBT 1992: 261-276
  31. Dean Jacobs, Richard Hull: Database Programming with Delayed Updates. DBPL 1991: 416-428
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