A Next Generation Object-Oriented Environment for Real-Time Database Application Development

Abstract

A lot of Real-Time (RT) database research has been done to process transactions in a timely fashion using a large number of temporal data representing the current status of the real world. However, most existing RT database works are based on simulations which have limitations in modeling realistic environment. To address this problem, we design a RT object-oriented application development environment, called ODEA Object Database for Real-Time Application Development), atop a popular open-source object-oriented database. The aim of ODEA is to design a next-generation development tool for future RT database application programmers. The tool is based on the query language RTNQL (Real-Time Native Query Language), a powerful, new and high level RT object-oriented programming language tightly coupled with query capabilities. This paper presents design goals of ODEA and its fundamental mechanisms.