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A Real-Time Database Testbed and Performance Evaluation∗ Kyoung-Don Kang, Phillip H. Sin, and Jisu Oh Sang H. Son Department of Computer Science Department of Computer Science State University of New York at Binghamton University of Virginia {kang,joh}@, son@ bj94041@ Abstract data, representing the real world status. RTDBs can relieve the difficulty of developing data-intensive real- A lot of real-time database (RTDB) research has time applications by supporting the logical and tempo- been done to process transactions in a timely fashion ral consistency of data via transactions. Also, in these using fresh data reflecting the current real world status. applications, RTDBs can significantly outperform ex- However, most existing RTDB work is based on simula- isting non-real-time databases (non-RTDBs) unaware tions. Due to the absence of a publicly available RTDB of timing and data freshness, i.e., temporal consistency, testbed, it is very hard to evaluate real-time data man- requirements [14, 15]. agement techniques in a realistic environment. To ad- RTDBs have been studied for more than a decade dress the problem, we design and develop an initial ver- producing key results; however, most existing work on sion of a RTDB testbed, called Chronos, atop an open RTDBs is based on simulations [15], which have limita- source database [5]. We develop soft real-time database tions in modeling realistic workloads and real database workloads that model