Various Products

There are many potential projects or works that are related to the TSpaces project because TSpaces can be so many things. TSpaces is a network communication tool (like the tuplespace systems), it is a general purpose (though not currently an SQL) database system, and it's a memory-resident database system (though not one currently designed for real high performance -- now that would be newsworthy, wouldn't it -- a high performance database system written in Java).

• Javaspaces: The first one is SUN's Javaspaces, which is very much like our system in that it's a tuplespace system written in Java.

• Objectspace's Voyager product appears to have some overlap with TSpaces, although we're still trying to figure out exactly what they do. More on this as it developments.

• Cloudscape: A SQL database engine written in Java. Cloudescape intends to market itself as the first Java-based database system. Where Java goes, so does Cloudscape.

• Sybase's SQL Anywhere: An SQL engine for small devices. Here's a direct link to the SQL Anywhere page.

• Oracle Lite: Another small SQL engine for small devices.

• TimesTen: A main memory database engine that's zillions of times faster than any regular SQL engine -- at least that's the rumor.

• Angara: Another main memory database engine -- their marketing department appears to be less bold than that of TimesTen.

  Papers and Projects

  Although we're working on a technical report that discusses the growth of TSpaces -- how it evolved from the early AI Blackboard systems, Gelernter's Linda Tuplespace, and other follow-on projects that added Object notions and persistent -- we're not ready to post a good annotated bibliography here. However, we can post the beginning of a regular bibliography. There's a whole lot more to go. I've already promised that I'll get the Jada/Pagespace entries in there.

  • [AH96] N. Afshartous and M. C. Harrison, "Expressing Concurrency in Griffin," IEEE International Conference on Parallel and Distributed Systems, 1996.
  • [ACG86] Sudhir Ahuja, Nicholas Carriero, and David Gelernter, "Linda and friends," Computer, pp 26-34, August 1986.
  • [Ananth 93] R. Ananthanarayanan, Vibby Gottemukkala, Wolfgang Käfer, Tobin J. Lehman, Hamid Pirahesh, "Using the Co-existence Approach to Achieve Combined Functionality of Object-Oriented and Relational Systems," Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 109-118, 1993.
  • [AS91] Brian Anderson and Dennis Shasha, "Persistent Linda: Linda + transactions + query processing," Workshop on Research Directions in High-Level Parallel Programming Languages, Mont Saint-Michel, France June 1991. Published as Springer-Verlag Lecture Notes in Computer Science 574.
  • [BG80] Arthur J. Bernstein and David Gelernter, "Storing and retrieving the network state: a survey and a proposal," SUNY at Stony Brook Technical Report #80-011, October 1980.
  • [BWA94] P. Butcher, A. Wood, M. Atkins, "Global synchronization in Linda," Concurrency: Practice and Experience 6(6):505-516, 1994.
  • [BL94] Ralph M. Butler and Ewing L. Lusk, "Monitors, Messages, and Clusters: the p4 Parallel Programming System," Journal of Parallel Computing, April 1994.
  • [CD94] S. Cannon and D. Dunn, "Adding fault-tolerant transaction processing to LINDA," Journal of Software, Practice and Experience, 24(5):449-466, 1994.
  • [Carriero+95] Nicholas Carriero, Eric Freeman, David Gelernter, David Kaminsky, "Adaptive parallelism and Piranha," Computer, 28(1), pp. 40-49, January 1995.
  • [CG89] Nicholas Carriero and David Gelernter, "Linda in context." Communications of the ACM, Vol. 32, No. 4, April 1989.
  • [CGH+94] S. Chawathe, H. Garcia-Molina, J. Hammer, K. Ireland, Y. Papakonstantinou, J. Ullman, J. Widom, "The TSIMMIS project: integration of hererogeneous information sources", Proceedings of IPSJ Conference, pp. 7-18, Tokyo, Japan, October 1994.
  • [CC+97] B. Christiansen, P. Cappello, M. F. Ionescu, M. O. Neary, K. E. Schauser, and D. Wu, "Javelin: Internet-Based Parallel Computing Using Java," ACM Workshop on Java for Science and Engineering Computation, June 1997
  • [CKTV96] P. Ciancarini, A. Knoche, R. Tolksdorf, F. Vitali, "PageSpace: an architecture to coordinate distributed applications on the Web," Computer Networks and ISDN Systems, Volume 28, Number 7-11, May 1996. http://grunge.cs.tu-berlin.de:7500/www5/www350/overview.html.
  • [Cloudscape] "JDBMS and the future of corporate computing", http://www.cloudscape.com
  • [CORBA] http://www.omg.org/about/wicorba.htm.
  • [Cor91] Daniel D. Corkill, "Blackboard Systems", AI Expert, Vol. 6, no. 9, pp40-47, September 1991.
  • [DRR+96] A. Douglas, N. R\"{o"jemo, C. Runciman, and A. Wood, "Astro-Gofer: parallel functional programming with co-ordinating processes", Euro-Par`96, 1996.
  • [DWR95] A. Douglas, A. Wood, A. Rowstron, "Linda implementation revisited", Transputer and Occam Developments, pages 125--138. IOS Press, 1995.
  • [embed] http://www.embedded-systems.ltd.uk/explan.htm
  • [Fra95] Maurice Frank, "Database and the internet", DBMS, December 1995.
  • [GHJ+94] E. Gamma, R. Helm, R. Johnson, and J. Vlissides, "Design Patterns: Elements of Reusable Object-Oriented Software", Addison Wesley, 1994.
  • [GBD+94] A. Geist, A. Beguelin, J. Dongarra, W. Jiang,R. Manchek, V. Sunderam, "PVM:Parallel Virtual Machine - A users' guide and tutorial for networked parallel computing", MIT Press, 1994.
  • [GC92] David Gelernter and Nicholas Carriero, "Coordination languages and their significance", Communications of the ACM, Vol. 35, No. 2, February 1992.
  • [Gelernter 85] David Gelernter. "Generative Communication in Linda." TOPLAS 7(1): 80-112 (1985)
  • [Gelernter 82] David Gelernter, Arthur J. Bernstein, "Distributed Communication via Global Buffer," Proceedings of the ACM Principles of Distributed Computing Conference, pp. 10-18, 1982.
  • [Gelenter 81] David Gelernter, "An integrated microprocessor network for experiments in distributed programming", SUNY at Stony Brook Technical Report \#81-024, May 1981.
  • [GNS+94] Y. Gutfreund, J. Nicol, R. Sasnett, V. Phuah, "WWWinda: An Orchestration Service for WWW Browsers and Accessories", 2nd Int. World Wide Web Conference, 1994.
  • [HKM+88] J. H. Howard, M. L. Kazar, S. G. Menees, D. A. Nichols, M. Satyanarayanan, R. N. Sidebotham, M. J. West, "Scale and Performance in a Distributed File System," ACM Transactions on Computer Systems, 6(1), February 1988.
  • [JavaSpaces] http://java.sum.com/products/javaspaces
  • [JTS+97] K. Jeong, S. Talla, D. Shasha, P. Wyckoff, "An approach to fault tolerant parallel processing on intermittently idle, heterogeneous workstations", Proceedings of The Twenty-Seventh International Symposium on Fault-Tolerant Computing (FTCS'97), pp. 11-20, IEEE, June 1997.
  • [JR89] Keld K. Jensen and Gorm E. Riksted, "Linda, a Distributed Programming Paradigm", Master's Thesis, Department of Mathematics \& Computer Science, University of Aalborg, Denmark, June 1989.
  • [JMW98] I. Jermyn, F. Monrose, P. Wyckoff, "Leaving the Sandbox: Third Party Validation for Java Applications", Thirteenth International Conference on Computers and Their Applications, 1998.
  • [Kiel95] Thilo Kielmann, "Object-Oriented Distributed Programming with Objective Linda", Proceeding of the First International Workshop on High Speed Networks and Open Distributed Platforms, June 1995.
  • [Lehman 86a] Tobin J. Lehman, Michael J. Carey, "Query Processing in Main Memory Database Management Systems," Proceedings of the ACM SIGMOD Conference, pp. 239-250, 1986.
  • [Lehman 86b] Tobin J. Lehman, Michael J. Carey, "A Study of Index Structures for Main Memory Database Management Systems," Proceedings of the IEEE International Conference on Very Large Data Bases, pp. 294-303, 1986.
  • [Lehman 92] Tobin J. Lehman, Eugene J. Shekita, Luis-Felipe Cabrera, "An Evaluation of Starburst's Memory Resident Storage Component," Transactions on Knowledge and Data Engineering, 4(6): 555-566, 1992.
  • [ODI] http://www.objectdesign.com
  • [Oracle] http://www.oracle.com
  • [MLW 98] Stephen McLaughry, Tobin Lehman, Peter Wyckoff ``Tuplespace: The Next Generation'', Submitted for publication.
  • [MAG+97] J. McHugh, S. Abiteboul, R. Goldman, D. Quass, J. Widom, "Lore: a database management system for semistructured data", SIGMOD Record, 26(3):54-66, September 1997.
  • [Mcl95] Stephen W. McLaughry, "TS++: communication specification using path expressions in the tuple space programming model", Bachelor's Thesis, Williams College, June 1995.
  • [MediaLab] http://ttt.www.media.mit.edu
  • [Nar90] James E. Narem, Jr., "An informal operational semantics of C-Linda V2.3.5", Technical Report, Yale University Department of Computer Science, Number TR-839, December 90.
  • [NKM+97] Y. Negishi, K. Kawachiya, H. Murata, K. Tago, "Tuplink: a system structure for mobile micro clients", http://www.trl.ibm.com.
  • [Polze 93] Andreas Polze. "Using the Object Space: A Distributed Parallel Make," 4th IEEE Workshop on Future Trends of Distributed Computing Systems, pp. 234-239(6), Lisbon, September 1993.
  • [Reinwald 94] Berthold Reinwald, Stefan Dessloch, Michael J. Carey, Tobin J. Lehman, Hamid Pirahesh, V. Srinivasan, "Making Real Data Persistent: Initial Experiences with SMRC," POS 1994: 202-216
  • [RW96] Antony Rowstron and Alan Wood, "An efficient distributed tuple space implementation for networks of workstations", Euro-Par'96, 1996.
  • [Schoen95] W. Schoenfeldinger, "WWW Meets Linda: Linda for Global WWW-Based Transaction Processing Systems", World Wide Web Journal, 1995.
  • [Sc90] G. Schoinas, "Issues on the Implementation of POSYBL", Technical Report, University of Crete, 1990.
  • [SBA93] B. R. Seyfarth, J. L. Bickham, M. Arumughum, "Glenda installation and use", distributed with software, November 1993.
  • [Tolk93] Robert Tolksdorf, "Laura: A Coordination Language for Open Distributed Systems", 13th IEEE International Conference on Distributed Computing Systems ICDCS 93 , pages 39-46, 1993.
  • [WMLF98] Peter Wyckoff, Stephen McLaughry, Tobin Lehman, Daniel Ford, ``TSpaces'', IBM Systems Journal, August 1998.
  
  
  

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