Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems

Summary: An experience-driven critique of active databases: inadequate methodology, standardization, tooling, and especially weak performance limit adoption. Trigger–transaction separation and subtle interactions make optimization and application evolution difficult, motivating dedicated design and administration tools. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8502
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
Pagerank: 8.9886936e-05
Overall Rank: 2,188 | 84.99%
DOI: -

Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time

Authors

1. Eric Simon (INRIA)
2. Angelika Kotz-Dittrich (Union Bank of Switzerland)

BibTeX Citation

@article{simon_vldb95,
        title = {{Promises and Realities of Active Database Systems}},
        author = {Simon, Eric and Kotz-Dittrich, Angelika},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {642},
        year = {1995}
}

Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 4 of 4 citing papers.

Rank	Citing Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
25	NiagaraCQ: A Scalable Continuous Query System for Internet Databases	2000	SIGMOD	0.00054667018
3,475	Integrating Triggers and Declarative Constraints in SQL Database Systems	1996	VLDB	7.3816996e-05
3,528	Practical Applications of Triggers and Constraints: Successes and Lingering Issues	2000	VLDB	7.3411417e-05
12,407	Business Policy Modeling and Enforcement in Databases	2011	VLDB	5.093636e-05

Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)

Showing 2 of 2 cited papers.

Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.

Rank	Cited Paper	Year	Venue	Pagerank
1,276	Organizing Long-Running Activities with Triggers and Transactions	1990	SIGMOD	0.0001136991
1,329	Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance	1990	VLDB	0.00011140837

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