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Topic-Based Publish/Subscribe

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Subject-based publish/subscribe

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Topic-based publish/subscribe is a communication abstraction that supports selective message dissemination among many sources and many sinks. Messages are associated with topics and are selectively routed to destinations with matching topic interests. Data sinks specify interest in receiving messages of a given topic and data sources publish messages on different topics. Topic-based publish/subscribe is an instance of the more general publish/subscribe concept.

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Topic-based publish/subscribe is an instance of the more general publish/subscribe concept. In the topic- based publish/subscribe model, a data source submits publication messages associated with a topic to the publish/subscribe system, while a data sink subscribes its interest in receiving messages of certain topics by submitting subscription expressions on available topics to the system. The kind of topics to publish or subscribe that exist is either out of band...

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  1. Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, University of Toronto, Toronto, ON, Canada

    Hans-Arno Jacobsen

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  1. Georgia Institute of Technology College of Computing, Atlanta, GA, USA

    Ling Liu

  2. University of Waterloo School of Computer Science, Waterloo, ON, Canada

    M. Tamer Özsu

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  1. Dept. of Elec. and Comp.Eng., Univ. of Toronto, Toronto, Ontario, Canada

    H. - Arno Jacobsen

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Jacobsen, HA. (2018). Topic-Based Publish/Subscribe. In: Liu, L., Özsu, M.T. (eds) Encyclopedia of Database Systems. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8265-9_1208

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