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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 twenty 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 text books [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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Berndtsson, M., Mellin, J. (2009). Active Database, Active Database (Management) System. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_502

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