Real-Time Database Systems: Concepts and Design
Saud A. Aldarmi · 1998
This qualifying dissertation is intended to review the state-of-the-art of Real-Time Database Systems under a uniprocessor and centralized environments. Due to the heterogeneity of the issues, the large amounts of information, and space limitation, we limit our presentation to the most important issues to the overall design, construction, and advancement of Real-Time Database Systems. Such topics are believed to include Transaction Scheduling, Admission Control, Memory Management, and Disk Scheduling. Furthermore, Transaction Scheduling consists of Concurrency Control Protocols, Conflict Resolution Protocols, and Deadlocks. Out of these issues, the most emphasis is placed on Concurrency Control and Conflict Resolution protocols due to their severe role on the overall systems performance. Other important issues that were not included in our presentation include Fault Tolerance and Failure Recovery, Predictability, and most important of all, Minimizing Transaction Support; i.e., Relaxin...