TMOM: A moving object main memory-based DBMS for telematics services

Abstract

Recently with the growth of the Internet and the activation of wireless communication, telematics services are emerging as promising next-generation business in the IT area. In order to provide telematics services, technologies in various areas are required but particularly DBMS technology for efficient data processing and management is an essential key technology for all types of telematics services. This paper designed and implemented TMOM (Telematics Moving Object Main Memory DBMS) to meet efficiently the requirements that telematics services should be provided in real-time. TMOM follows the spatial data model of OpenGIS "Simple Features Specification for SQL", and provides spatial, spatio-temporal and temporal types and corresponding operators for processing the moving object data. In addition, it supports optimized spatial, spatio-temporal and trajectory indexes in the main memory for fast search of large moving object data and provides a recovery function that can minimize disk input-output to maximize system performance. Also, for high transmission efficiency in data import/export between telematics applications and a back-end DBMS, it supports a compression function and a data caching function suitable for the characteristics of spatial data. © 2006 Springer-Verlag.