Service-Based Data Management Systems

Completed Research Project

Summary / Zusammenfassung: Today’s Data Management Systems are mainly large and heavy-weight
monoliths that, even worse, undergo steady extensions in functionality. This makes
them highly complex and creates problems when it comes to building tailored extensions.

In this project we propose to build a Service-Based Database Management System (SBDBMS) architecture that supports tailored extensions according to user requirements. Our goal is to introduce more flexibility and extensibility by founding our database architecture on the principles of the Service Oriented Architecture (SOA).
The architecture we propose consists of four major service layers (Storage Services, Access Services, Data Services, Extension Services). Each of these layers can be flexibly extended with new services that invoke other services from within or outside the system. In addition, the architecture’s extension mechanism allows application functionality to be easily integrated into the Service-Based Database Management System to support reuse and
optimization of commonly used application functionality. Furthermore we want to build and optimize services in order to obtain increased system performance.

Publications / Publikationen: Ionut Emanuel Subasu, Patrick Ziegler, Klaus R. Dittrich: Towards Service-Based Database Management Systems. BTW Workshops 2007: 296-306

Project Leadership and Contacts / Projektleitung und Kontakte

Ionut Subasu (Project Leader)

Funding Source(s) / Unterstützt durch: Universität Zürich (position pursuing an academic career)