A Review of Current Database Systems 1 Database Research and Achievements

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A Review of Current Database Systems (1)
Database Research and Achievements

• The DB research community plays a foundational
  role in creating the technological infrastructure
  from which database advancements evolve.
• Most of current and next generation DB
  applications will require solutions to new
  research problems e.g.
• Support for multimedia objects (storage and
  searching by contents)
• Distribution of information, distributed
  transaction management
• Meeting high performance in the presence of large
  volumes of data (due to increasing hardware
  capability/capacity and falling memory/storage
  prices)

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(2) Current Database Technologies

• Systems
• Relational, Object-Relational, Object-Oriented
• From centralized to distributed to parallel to
  mobile to P2P (Peer to Peer).
• Special Purpose GIS, Genomic, Multimedia
• Technologies
• Data warehousing, data mining, OLAP
• Semi-Structured, web-enabled, XML (data-centric)
• Digital libraries

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(3) New Research Directions

• Problems associated with managing multimedia
  objects into databases.
• Problems involving new paradigms for distribution
  of information.
• New uses of databases. New transaction models.
• Stream processing. Semi-structured and XML data
  management.
• Problems associated with database everywhere
• Self-managing, self-organizing, self-optimising
  and self-healing DBMS.

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(4) References

• Jim Gray - Microsoft.The Next Database
  Revolution. ACM SIGMOD 2004 (copy provided).
• Avi Silberschatz, Mike Stonebraker, Jeff Ullman
  (eds.). Database Research Achievements and
  Opportunities Into the 21st Century.SIGMOD
  Record, 1996 (on Blackboard).
• Peter Gray. Database Knowledge Bases Research
  Directions. CPHC Workshop on Research Directions
  for TAE Themes, Manchester, 2000.
  http//www.csd.abdn.ac.uk/pgray/man.html