A Database System for Real-Time Event Aggregation in Telecommunication

Telecommunication networks process verylarge numbers of events in real time. In this environment, database applications demand both high throughput (at reasonable costs), and predictable, millisecond response times. Conventional disk-based database systems were not designed to meet such requirements. This paper sketches some real-time telecommunications applications, describes their database requirements, and then introduces Sunrise, a specialized, database system for real-time event processing and aggregation in telecommunication. Sunrise's architecture features shared-nothing parallelism, a mainmemory storage manager (DataBlitz), and a programming tool which allows new services to be authored and installed in an on-line system without interrupting event processing. Sunrise is an industrial-strength system, and has been used as the platform for a number of telecommunication applications with real-time event-processing and aggregation requirements. Permission to copy without fee ...

• Type: Conference
• Year: 1998
• Where: VLDB
• Authors: Jerry Baulier, Stephen Blott, Henry F. Korth, Abraham Silberschatz
• Keywords: Database, Database System, Event Processing, Telecommunication Networks Process, VLDB 1998