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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
h1268d09349e0fb9c
Venue
SIGMOD
Year
1989
Pagerank
0.00025218052
Overall Rank
203 | 98.64%
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 0.00053906051
147 On Rules, Procedures, Caching And Views In Data Base Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00029006574
246 Deriving Production Rules for Incremental View Maintenance 1991 VLDB 0.00023204593
247 Efficient Filtering of XML Documents for Selective Dissemination of Information 2000 VLDB 0.00023188523
369 Continuous Queries over Append-Only Databases 1992 SIGMOD 0.0001984577
581 Alert: An Architecture for Transforming a Passive DBMS into an Active DBMS 1991 VLDB 0.00015977796
738 Set-Oriented Production Rules in Relational Database Systems 1990 SIGMOD 0.00014352601
1,372 Deriving Production Rules for Constraint Maintenance 1990 VLDB 0.00010893304
1,491 Event Specification in an Active Object-Oriented Database 1992 SIGMOD 0.00010503925
1,627 Implementing Set-Oriented Production Rules as an Extension to Starburst 1991 VLDB 0.00010034329
2,382 Managing Semantic Heterogeneity with Production Rules and Persistent Queues 1993 VLDB 8.5429132e-05
2,846 Making Deductive Database a Practical Technology: a step forward 1990 SIGMOD 7.9437501e-05
2,848 On Maintaining Priorities in a Production Rule System 1991 VLDB 7.9393628e-05
3,186 Language Constructs for Programming Active Databases 1991 VLDB 7.5531326e-05
3,638 Ode as an Active Database: Constraints and Triggers 1991 VLDB 7.1428559e-05
3,865 On Implementing a Language for Specifying Active Database Execution Models 1993 VLDB 6.9594584e-05
3,894 Behavior of Database Production Rules: Termination, Confluence, and Observable Determinism 1992 SIGMOD 6.9364082e-05
4,122 Temporal Conditions and Integrity Constraints in Active Database Systems 1995 SIGMOD 6.7915299e-05
5,401 Semantics and Expressiveness Issues in Active Databases 1995 PODS 6.1467854e-05
5,858 Implementing High Level Active Rules on top of a Relational DBMS 1992 VLDB 5.9668341e-05
6,021 NAOS: Efficient and modular reactive capabilities in an Object-Oriented Database System 1994 VLDB 5.9101772e-05
6,457 Index Support for Rule Activation 1993 SIGMOD 5.7755277e-05
8,738 Triggered Real-Time Databases with Consistency Constraints 1990 VLDB 5.2880532e-05
13,208 Unrolling Cycle to Decide Trigger Termination 1999 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
13,311 Database De-Centralization - A Practical Approach 1995 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
13,327 Predictive Dynamic Load Balancing of Parallel and Distributed Rule and Query Processing 1994 SIGMOD 4.9769913e-05
13,390 Production Rules in Parallel and Distributed Database Environments 1992 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
13,392 Experiences With an Object Manager for a Process-Centered Environment 1992 VLDB 4.9769913e-05
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Rank Cited Paper Year Venue Pagerank
610 Active Databases as a Paradigm for Enhanced Computing Environments 1983 VLDB 0.00015577357
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