Concept for a real-time structured database query language (RT-SQL)

Abstract

Real-time database management systems have become a hot topic in the research and development community of late (Fort94a,Grah93,WCPP93). In addition there has been a movement in the standards community to examine and develop extensions to existing and proposed query languages to support real-time (Fish94,Fort94,Fort94a,FS94,Gord94).

This paper examines the state of research into real-time database management systems in the areas of database structuring, transaction structuring, transaction processing, concurrency control, recovery and real-time transaction scheduling. We then extend the findings and trends of this work into the high level specification of data definition language, data manipulation language and data control language extensions for the standard SQL2 and emerging SQL3 database query languages.