Abstract

The con uence of computers, communications and databases is quickly creating a global virtual database where many applications require real-time access to both temporally accurate and multimedia data. We are developing a global virtual database, called BeeHive, which is enterprise speci c and o ers features along real-time, fault tolerance, quality of service for audio and video, and security dimensions. Support of all these features and tradeo s between them will provide signi cant improvement in performance and functionality over browsers, browsers connected to databases, and, in general, today's distributed databases. We present a high level design for BeeHive andvarious novel component technologies that are to be incorporated into BeeHive.

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