Maintaining Global Integrity in Federated Relational Databases Using Interactive Component Systems
Author(s) -
Christopher Popfinger,
Stefan Conrad
Publication year - 2005
Publication title -
lecture notes in computer science
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Book series
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.249
H-Index - 400
eISSN - 1611-3349
pISSN - 0302-9743
ISBN - 3-540-29736-7
DOI - 10.1007/11575771_34
Subject(s) - computer science , data integrity , component (thermodynamics) , database , relational database , interoperability , distributed database , constraint (computer aided design) , relational database management system , database schema , active database , database design , distributed computing , world wide web , engineering , mechanical engineering , physics , thermodynamics
The maintenance of global integrity constraints in database federations is still a challenge since traditional integrity constraint management techniques cannot be applied to such a distributed management of data. In this paper we present a concept of global integrity maintenance by migrating the concepts of active database systems to a collection of interoperable relational databases. We introduce Active Component Systems which are able to interact with each other using direct connections established from within their database management systems. Global integrity constraints are decomposed into sets of partial integrity constraints, which are enforced directly by the affected Active Component Systems without the need of a global component.
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