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Real-Time Transaction Processing

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Encyclopedia of Database Systems

Synonyms

Time-constrained transaction management

Definition

Real-time transaction processing focuses on (i) enforcing time constraints of transactions, i.e., meet time constraints on invocation and completion, and (ii) ensuring temporal consistency of data, i.e., data should be valid/fresh at the time of usage.

The successful integration of time-cognizant behavior and transaction processing into a database system is generally referred to as a real-time database system (RTDB).

Historical Background

The area of real-time transaction processing has emerged from the need for real-time systems, which often are safety-critical, to handle large amounts of data in a systematic fashion, and the increasing expectation of non-critical applications that have used conventional databases but are now needed to deal with “soft” real-time data applications, e.g., multimedia. Real-time systems have traditionally managed data in an ad hoc manner, i.e., system developers have stored and manipulated data...

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  1. Carnegie Mellon University, Pittsburgh, PA, USA

    Jörgen Hansson

  2. Bell Labs, Murray Hill, NJ, USA

    Ming Xiong

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  1. College of Computing, Georgia Institute of Technology, 266 Ferst Drive, 30332-0765, Atlanta, GA, USA

    LING LIU (Professor) (Professor)

  2. Database Research Group David R. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, 200 University Avenue West, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. TAMER ÖZSU (Professor and Director, University Research Chair) (Professor and Director, University Research Chair)

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Hansson, J., Xiong, M. (2009). Real-Time Transaction Processing. In: LIU, L., ÖZSU, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, Boston, MA. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-0-387-39940-9_721

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