Application-tailored database systems: a case of aspects in an embedded database

Current techniques used to design and implement database systems do not provide support for efficient implementation of crosscutting concerns in the database software, e.g., failure detection, database policies such as concurrency control and scheduling, and synchronization. Aspect-oriented software...

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Main Authors: Tesanovic, A., Ke Sheng, Hansson, J.
Format: Conference Proceeding
Language:English
Subjects:
Application software
Applied sciences
Computer aided software engineering
Computer science
Computer science
control theory
systems
Concurrency control
Database systems
Exact sciences and technology
Information systems. Data bases
Job shop scheduling
Memory organisation. Data processing
Programming
Software
Software maintenance
Software systems
Spatial databases
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Summary:Current techniques used to design and implement database systems do not provide support for efficient implementation of crosscutting concerns in the database software, e.g., failure detection, database policies such as concurrency control and scheduling, and synchronization. Aspect-oriented software development (AOSD) is a new technique that provides an efficient way of modularizing crosscutting concerns in software systems. In This work we evaluate the effectiveness of applying AOSD to database systems thereby paving way for successful application of aspect languages to the database domain. Our focus is on embedded database systems, as a representative for a class of database systems. We show, by analyzing and re-engineering one commercial well-known embedded database system (Berkeley database), that aspect-orientation has promise, especially in enabling development of tailorable, maintainable, and evolvable database systems.
ISSN:1098-8068
DOI:10.1109/IDEAS.2004.1319803