Non-standard DBMS for support of emerging applications-requirement analysis and architectural concepts

The author has analyzed the data management needs of a spectrum of applications, mainly in engineering, and has encountered both a modeling and a processing problem in today´s database management systems (DBMSs). The author then attempts to explain which data model concepts and architectural decisions are necessary and why they can succeed in providing the anticipated data management support. Although the author´s focus is a tutorial-like description of application requirements and their consequences for DBMS design, the concepts are illustrated by a practical data model and a DBMS architecture implemented at the University of Kaiserslautern