Applying database technology to real-time systems

Abstract

Real-time systems is becoming one of many application areas whose development requires the involvement of database system concepts. Due to ever increasing volume of information being handled by data-intensive real-time applications, a need has arisen for applying database technology to real-time systems. Management of real-time information through a database system requires the integration of concepts from database systems and real-time systems, which is not a trivial task. Some new criteria have to be developed to involve timing constraints of real-time applications in many database system design issues, such as the structure and organization of the underlying data, transaction scheduling, query processing, data buffering, CPU and IO scheduling. In this paper, we mention about benefits and potential problems of applying database technology to real-time systems, provide the current status of the research in this field, and summarize our work on scheduling database transactions with timing constraints.