Re: Help - Does DSMS/Data stream fall under "DBMS design and implementation" category?

From: Marshall <marshall.spight_at_gmail.com>
Date: 3 Oct 2006 11:59:30 -0700
Message-ID: <1159901969.962689.185980@c28g2000cwb.googlegroups.com>

anonym wrote:
> Hi,
> I have to write a paper that deals with issues concerning design and
> implementation of a DBMS system. The paper topic cannot be such which
> assumes an underlying DBMS .
> I am interested in the continuous data stream management - DSMS , but I
> am confused whether it falls under the category "design and
> implementation of a DBMS system" or whether it assumes an underlying
> DBMS.
> Any help is appreciated.

I think discussing DSMSs is on-topic here.

As to your question, I could imagine a DSMS design that depended on a DBMS, and I could imagine one that didn't. The one obvious place one would lean on a DBMS would be for guaranteed delivery of messages to disconnected clients; you need some sort of persistence mechanism for that.

More interesting to me is the question of unifying the two systems, such that they represented a single unified management system for both durable relational data and transient stream data.

Marshall Received on Tue Oct 03 2006 - 13:59:30 CDT