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

Thanks for the reply.
I was thinking on writing a paper which analyzes whether and how current DBMS design and implementation can be changed to adapt to the continuous data streams. But I am a newbie in this field, so don't know whether its possible.

Marshall wrote:
> 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 - 21:29:18 CEST