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It has been demonstrated that future data management services will require a large number of both functional and structural extensions to current database systems. While these enhancements in themselves pose a variety of interesting problems, the focus of this paper has been to determine how the resulting reliability and performance requirements can be fulfilled. We have argued that the most promising approach is a requester/server-structure based on the notion of resource managers. This allows for performance tuning as well extensibility. If the interaction between requesters and servers is automatically protected by system transactions (nested transactions), the reliability issue can also be solved in a systematic way.
This design implies a tight integration of the database function with the operating system, the communication system and the run-time system of programming languages. But as the scenarios in Chapter 2 have shown, this is required anyway. Whether the resulting configuration is called a DBMS or not, is probably just a matter of taste. It is, in fact, an ensemble of resource managers with well-defined execution models in the sense of generalizations of the transaction paradigm.
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Reuter, A. (1990). Performance and reliability issues in future DBMSs. In: Blaser, A. (eds) Database Systems of the 90s. IBM 1990. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 466. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/3-540-53397-4_41
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