In today's global marketplace, most enterprises must actively share information with their partners, suppliers, and customers to achieve their business goals. Increasingly, database systems must interact with message-oriented middleware technologies to share and consume information. This has recently inspired the idea of implementing messaging features directly at the database. This column briefly describes some of the research challenges involved.
Index Terms:
information sharing, databases, message-oriented middleware, event processing
Citation:
Luis Vargas, "Database Challenges in Enterprise Information Sharing," IEEE Distributed Systems Online, vol. 7, no. 10, pp. 2, Oct. 2006, doi:10.1109/MDSO.2006.60