Beehive: Global multimedia database support for dependable, real-time applications

Abstract

The confluence of computers, communications and databases is quickly creating a global virtual database where many applications require real-time access to both temporally accurate and multimedia data. We are developing a global virtual database, called BeeHive, which is enterprise specific and offers features along real-time, fault tolerance, quality of service for audio and video, and security dimensions. Support of all these features and tradeoffs between them will provide significant improvement in performance and functionality over browsers, browsers connected to databases, and, in general, today's distributed databases. We present a high level design for BeeHive and various novel component technologies that are to be incorporated into BeeHive.