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- From: Mike Trest <trest@visicom.com>
- Newsgroups: comp.os.vxworks
- Subject: re: database for VxWorks
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 93 7:43:34 PST
- Organization: Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, Berkeley CA
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- >Shin-Yuan Tzou:
- >Are there vendors that provide database software for VxWorks?
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- The real-time environment is not the ideal model for a DBMS.
- What we do is use client/server or RPC capabilities of VxWorks
- to talk to DBMS services elsewhere in a network.
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- I have probably put as much SCSI disk & DAT tape on VxWorks
- as anyone, however, I would not attempt anything more than
- a symplistic DBMS where it is supported exclusively by
- VxWorks.
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- Therefore, I suggest a marriage between a SUN/OS or UNIX
- DBMS embedded in the same cage with VxWorks real time boards.
- We have designed this solution into our customer systems which
- need access to DBMS by hard real-time applications.
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- The real design critical issues are:
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- 1. What is the allowable latency between the real-time
- need for data and DBMS data availability?
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- 2. What is the frequency of DBMS read vice update?
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- 3. Do you need multiple requesting real-time processes?
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- 4. Do the requestors operate under a common "user"
- access profile?
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- 5. Where will data integrity locks be handled?
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- The conclusion offered of a marriage between VxWorks and
- a good DBMS still requires many *APPLICATION* design decisions.
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- Good luck! And please keep me/us posted on your progress.
-
- ..mike..
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