Exploiting the power of relational databases for efficient stream processing
Erietta Liarou, Romulo A.P. Gonçalves, Stratos Idreos · 2009
Stream applications gained significant popularity over the last years that lead to the development of specialized stream engines. These systems are designed from scratch with a different philosophy than nowadays database engines in order to cope with the stream applications requirements. However, this means that they lack the power and sophisticated techniques of a full fledged database system that exploits techniques and algorithms accumulated over many years of database research.