From a laguna to open waters: Another view on the next generations of databases.

Hervé Gallaire: From a laguna to open waters: Another view on the next generations of databases. VLDB 1989: 1

@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/Gallaire89,
  author    = {Herv{\'e} Gallaire},
  editor    = {Peter M. G. Apers and
               Gio Wiederhold},
  title     = {From a laguna to open waters: Another view on the next generations
               of databases},
  booktitle = {Proceedings of the Fifteenth International Conference on Very
               Large Data Bases, August 22-25, 1989, Amsterdam, The Netherlands},
  publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
  year      = {1989},
  isbn      = {1-55860-101-5},
  pages     = {1},
  ee        = {db/conf/vldb/Gallaire89.html},
  crossref  = {DBLP:conf/vldb/89},
  bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}

Abstract

The Laguna Beach report [l] identiefies major trends for the evolution of databases. While interesting issues are analysed and debated in that report, the views expressed are conservative and short-sighted. While [l] emphasizes new application domains such as CASE and CIM, I believe that decision support systems (DSS) will also become important for pushing the limits of database systems. DSS combine requirements for bet- ter modeling techniques that they share with CASE and CIM-of which the object-oriented models of [l] are but a special case-to the needs of dynamic views and queries in ways which cannot be limited to simple rule firing and require the power of a declarative programming language to be available in the context of a database system. Logic-based systems remain the first candidates in this area. The talk will present an exam ple of a DSS, review its functionality, discuss a suitable architecture. Further points to be discussed will involve the availability of workstations and very large memories and its influence on the architecture of a database system.

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References

[1]: Philip A. Bernstein, Umeshwar Dayal, David J. DeWitt, Dieter Gawlick, Jim Gray, Matthias Jarke, Bruce G. Lindsay, Peter C. Lockemann, David Maier, Erich J. Neuhold, Andreas Reuter, Lawrence A. Rowe, Hans-Jörg Schek, Joachim W. Schmidt, Michael Schrefl, Michael Stonebraker: Future Directions in DBMS Research - The Laguna Beach Participants. SIGMOD Record 18(1): 17-26(1989)