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The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System*

Summary: Proposes architecture for an active DBMS with ECA rules and a transaction-aware execution model. Introduces new application-DBMS interaction forms enabling rule-driven automation, defining a paradigm for active data application development. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID
2504
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1989
Pagerank
0.00025700767
Overall Rank
197 | 98.66%
DOI
10.1145/67544.66946

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BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{mccarthy_sigmod89,
        title = {{The Architecture Of An Active Data Base Management System*}},
        author = {McCarthy, Dennis R. and Dayal, Umeshwar},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '89},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/67544.66946},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/67544.66946},
        year = {1989}
}

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25 NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases 2000 SIGMOD 0.00054667018
146 On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00029540467
236 Efficient Filtering of XML Documents for Selective Dissemination of Information 2000 VLDB 0.00023721569
258 Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance 1991 VLDB 0.00023131981
368 Continuous Queries over Append-Only Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.00019968151
576 Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS 1991 VLDB 0.00016238156
716 Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00014652696
1,329 Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance 1990 VLDB 0.00011140837
1,451 Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database 1992 SIGMOD 0.00010745897
1,590 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010257581
2,334 Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues 1993 VLDB 8.7336402e-05
2,783 Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward 1990 SIGMOD 8.1273861e-05
2,820 On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System 1991 VLDB 8.0911708e-05
3,130 Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases 1991 VLDB 7.7250012e-05
3,561 Ode as an Active Database: Constraints and Triggers 1991 VLDB 7.3091114e-05
3,797 On Implementing a Language for Specifying Active Database Execution Models 1993 VLDB 7.1176817e-05
3,829 Behavior of Database Production Rules: Termination, Confluence, and Observable Determinism 1992 SIGMOD 7.088463e-05
4,040 Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems 1995 SIGMOD 6.9423365e-05
5,270 Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases 1995 PODS 6.2908453e-05
5,762 Implementing High Level Active Rules on top of a Relational DBMS 1992 VLDB 6.0957273e-05
5,896 NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System 1994 VLDB 6.0486927e-05
6,331 Index Support for Rule Activation 1993 SIGMOD 5.9108389e-05
8,563 Triggered Real-Time Databases with Consistency Constraints 1990 VLDB 5.4119882e-05
12,912 Unrolling Cycle to Decide Trigger Termination 1999 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,015 Database De-Centralization - A Practical Approach 1995 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,031 Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing 1994 SIGMOD 5.093636e-05
13,094 Production Rules in Parallel and Distributed Database Environments 1992 VLDB 5.093636e-05
13,096 Experiences With an Object Manager for a Process-Centered Environment 1992 VLDB 5.093636e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
598 Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments 1983 VLDB 0.00015910777
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