Lehrgebiet Informationssysteme

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Non-Standard DBMS for Support of Emerging Applications - Requirement Analysis and Architectural Concepts

T. Härder

University of Kaiserslautern
P.O. Box 3049, 67653 Kaiserslautern, Germany
e-mail: haerder@informatik.uni-kl.de

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Abstract:

Today's DBMS are unable to meet the increasing requirements of emerging applications that would like to use a DBMS. To improve this situation a new generation of DBMS architectures adjusted to the demands of such enhanced applications have to be developed. For this purpose, we have analysed the data management needs of a spectrum consisting mainly of engineering applications and have encountered both a modeling and a processing problem in today's DBMS. We try to explain which data model concepts and architec tural decisions are necessary and why they can succeed in provid ing the antcipated data management support. Although the focal point of the paper is a tutorial-like description of application re quirements and their consequences on DBMS design, we illustrate the recommended concepts by a practical data model and a DBMS architecture implemented at the University of Kaiserslautern.

Published in Proc. 22nd Annual Hawaii Int. Conf. on System Sciences, Hawaii, 1989, pp. 549-558.