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Methods and Tools for Construction of Highly Configurable Database Families for Embedded Systems

About the Project

Data management functionality is not only needed in largescale server systems, but also in embedded systems. Resource restrictions and heterogeneity of hardware, however, complicate the development of data management solutions for those systems. In current practice, this typically leads to the redevelopment of data management because existing solutions cannot be reused and adapted appropriately.

The Fame-DBMS (Family of Embedded DataBase Management Systems) project explores techniques to implement highly customizable data management solutions and illustrates how such systems can be created with a software product line approach. With this approach a concrete instance of a DBMS is derived by composing features of the DBMS product line that are needed for a specific application scenario.

This product derivation process is getting complex if a large number of features is available. Furthermore, in embedded systems also non-functional properties, e.g., memory consumption, have to be considered when creating a DBMS instance. To simplify the derivation process, the Fame-DBMS project also explores possibilities for its automation.

Fame-DBMS is a research project distributed between German Universities, namely

in cooperation with

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Fame-DBMS is partly supported by the DFG (German Research Foundation) under grant no. SA 465/32-1 (Magdeburg) and SP 968/2-1 (Dortmund). Funding period: 2006-08-01 to 2008-08-01.

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