Transaction Management to Support Rule Based Database Applications

Abstract

This article describes the design of a transaction management dedicated to database integrated rule systems. Especially, we look at an object management system which has to integrate several inference mechanisms. The transaction management of such a system has to support various integration architectures equally well with respect to easy and effortless coupling of database and rule system as well as efficient rule evaluation. In the following we develop a classification of inference mechanisms and parallelism in database integrated production rule systems. Thereafter, we describe a transaction management which supports different rule systems that can be described by our classification scheme.