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Active Database Coupling Modes

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Coupling modes specify execution points for ECA rule conditions and ECA rule actions with respect to the triggering event and the transaction model.

Historical Background

Coupling modes for ECA rules were first suggested in the HiPAC project [2, 3].

Foundations

Coupling modes are specified for event-condition couplings and for condition-action couplings. In detail, the event-condition coupling specifies when the condition should be evaluated with respect to the triggering event, and the condition-action coupling specifies when the rule action should be executed with respect to the evaluated rule condition (if condition is evaluated to true).

The three most common coupling modes are immediate, deferred, and decoupled. The immediate coupling mode preempts the execution of the transaction and immediately initiates condition evaluation and action execution. In the deferred coupling mode, condition evaluation and action execution is deferred to the end of the transaction (before...

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Recommended Reading

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  1. University of Skövde, Skövde, Sweden

    Mikael Berndtsson & Jonas Mellin

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  1. Mikael Berndtsson
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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, Georgia, USA

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  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, Ontario, Canada

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  1. Cheriton School of Computer Science, University of Waterloo, N2L 3G1, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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Berndtsson, M., Mellin, J. (2017). Active Database Coupling Modes. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-7993-3_503-2

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