Platform Requirements of a Real-Time Object-Oriented Database Management System for Telecommunications

Juha Taina, Petri Elovaara, Tiina Niklander, and Kimmo E. E. Raatikainen: Platform Requirements of a Real-Time Object-Oriented Database Management System for Telecommunications. Report C-1996-30, Department of Computer Science, University of Helsinki, May 1996. 18 pages. <http://www.cs.helsinki.fi/TR/C-1996/30>

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Abstract

Today the need for real-time services is rapidly growing in the telecommunications. Another important trend is the willingness to provided new services exploiting software solutions that are based on object-orientation. Therefore, the telecommunication solutions of tomorrow will need real-time object-oriented database management system (RT-OODBMS). An RT-OODBMS can be implemented on the top of a real-time platform if key features are supported in the platform. In this paper we discuss the platform support needed by a particular database architecture developed in our research projects. Several commercial real-time platforms have nice features but the situation is roughly the same as in ordinary database systems: general purpose (real-time) platforms can only provide rudimentary support. Several essential properties must be implemented in the database system.

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C.3, D.4.7, H.2.4, J.7

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Additional Key Words and Phrases: Real-time databases, object-orientation, real-time platforms