Towards a Technique for Extracting Relational Actors from Monolithic Applications

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  • Rodrigo Laigner
  • Sérgio Lifschitz
  • Marcos Kalinowski
  • Marcus Poggi
  • Marcos Antonio Vaz Salles
Relational actors, or reactors for short, integrate the actor model with the relational data model, providing an abstraction for enabling actor-relational database systems. However, as a novel model of computation for databases, there is no extensive work on reasoning about reactor modeling. To close this gap, this paper aims to propose as well as evaluate a technique to extract reactors from a monolithic system. For evaluation, we selected a REST-based open-source OLTP system in which a decomposition to microservices was conducted and applied our technique on its predecessor monolithic version. Our technique led to the same set of decisions, regarding table and behavior selection, taken by experts when decomposing the same system into microservices. The proposed technique can be seen as a first step towards supporting practitioners in decomposing OLTP systems into reactors.
Original languageEnglish
Title of host publicationAnais do XXXIV Simpósio Brasileiro de Banco de Dados
PublisherSociedade Brasileira de Computacao
Publication date2019
Pages133-144
DOIs
Publication statusPublished - 2019

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