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@inproceedings{DBLP:conf/vldb/Vaskevitch95,
author = {David Vaskevitch},
editor = {Umeshwar Dayal and
Peter M. D. Gray and
Shojiro Nishio},
title = {Very Large Databases: How Large, How Different?},
booktitle = {VLDB'95, Proceedings of 21th International Conference on Very
Large Data Bases, September 11-15, 1995, Zurich, Switzerland},
publisher = {Morgan Kaufmann},
year = {1995},
isbn = {1-55860-379-4},
pages = {677-685},
ee = {db/conf/vldb/Vaskevitch95.html},
crossref = {DBLP:conf/vldb/95},
bibsource = {DBLP, http://dblp.uni-trier.de}
}
Soon, the world will need far more truly large databases than any of us ever imagined; yet, ironically, without a lot of care, VLDB's, as we know them today may be left along the wayside. The way in which we think about, design and build enormous databases will have to completely change if we are to participate in this revolution.
By now everybody, including database people, realizes that the computer world is going through not one but two revolutionary changes. First, of course, there's the whole impact of personal computers, commodity hardware and ever increasing speed and capacity. Second, there's the impact of the internet with its globalization, ubiquity, and popularization of the very notion of servers. Individually, each ofthese would be quite a lot to deal with; put them together, and the impactis explosive. This paper deals with the particular impact of this changingworld scene on the concepts behind and implementation of very large databases. By the time we're done, the meanings of "very", "large" and "database" will be pretty different than it is today.
Copyright © 1995 by the VLDB Endowment. Permission to copy without fee all or part of this material is granted provided that the copies are not made or distributed for direct commercial advantage, the VLDB copyright notice and the title of the publication and its date appear, and notice is given that copying is by the permission of the Very Large Data Base Endowment. To copy otherwise, or to republish, requires a fee and/or special permission from the Endowment.
