Analysis and optimization of active databases

  • Authors:
  • Danilo Montesi;Riccardo Torlone

  • Affiliations:
  • DSI - Università di Bologna, Via di Anteo Zamboni 7, 40127 Bologna, Italy;DIA - Università Roma Tre, Via della Vasca Navale 79, 00146 Rome, Italy

  • Venue:
  • Data & Knowledge Engineering
  • Year:
  • 2002

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Abstract

We introduce a new formal semantics for active databases that relies on a transaction rewriting technique. A user-defined transaction, which is viewed here as a sequence of atomic database updates forming a semantic atomic unit, is translated by means of active rules into induced one(s). These transactions embody active rule semantics which can be either immediate or deferred. Rule semantics, confluence, equivalence and optimization are then formally investigated and characterized in a solid framework that naturally extends a known model for relational database transactions.