Rule management and evaluation: an active DBMS perspective
Sharma Chakravarthy · ACM SIGMOD Record · 1989
An active database management system is characterized by its ability to monitor and react to both database and nondatabase events in a timely and efficient manner. There have been several attempts at integrating this capability with conventional, passive DBMSs. In fact, this capability has been shown to be pivotal for supporting a variety of database functions in an elegant manner.