DBMS RESEARCH Are We On The Right Tracks

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DBMS RESEARCHAre We On The Right Tracks?

• Jim Gray
• Microsoft Research
• Gray_at_Microsoft.com
• http//research.Microsoft.com/Gray

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On the Right Track? Yes No

• Yes
• Multi-Billion dollar industry
• How can you argue with success?
• No
• The web is where the action is
• Functionality over performance
• Knowledge-Discovery folks starting own community
• Few contributions to
• text speech image
• time spatial scientific / statistical
• Ignored (reinvented) objects, languages, OSs,
  Web,...

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What Is Our Mission?

• Manage Data AUTOMATICALLY
• ingest,
• store,
• analyze,
• retrieve,
• display
• Good NewsWe own the patent on the byte (MOD)
• Bad NewsWe do not own the patent on the
  algorithm.
• They are inseparable Program Procedure Data

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Its all about Changing Ratios

• Some things not changing much
• cost of peoples time
• speed of light
• device access times
• Some things changing a lot
• 1,000x bandwidth
• everyone/everything connected always.
• 100x storage capacity
• 10x processor speed
• 100x cheaper devices
• 100x less power
• In 10 years things will be VERY different

Kilo 103 Mega 106 Giga 109 Tera 1012 Peta 101
5 Exa 1018 Zeta 1021 Yotta 1024
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Freight Trains Coming Our Way

• XML
• It has a good chance of replacing SQL.
• They are ignoring us.
• Database Machines
• Patterson talk, CMU,
• Knowledge discovery (not just count, sum, min,)
• Object-Oriented (its finally happening)
• Domain-specific Databases
• Text, image, temporal, spatial, ...