Modern web applications often require application servers to deliver updates proactively to the client. These push-based architectures, however, are notoriously hard to implement on top of existing infrastructure, because today’s databases typically only support pull-based access to data. In this paper, we first illustrate ...

Users have come to expect reactivity from mobile and web applications, i.e. they assume that changes made by other users become visible immediately. However, developers are challenged with building reactive applications on top of traditional pull-oriented databases, because they are ill-equipped to push new information ...