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DBMS RESEARCH Are We On The Right Tracks?

DBMS RESEARCH Are We On The Right Tracks?. Jim Gray Microsoft Research Gray@Microsoft.com http://research.Microsoft.com/~Gray. 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

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DBMS RESEARCH Are We On The Right Tracks?

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  1. DBMS RESEARCHAre We On The Right Tracks? Jim Gray Microsoft Research Gray@Microsoft.com http://research.Microsoft.com/~Gray

  2. 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,...

  3. What Is Our Mission? • Manage Data: AUTOMATICALLY • ingest, • store, • analyze, • retrieve, • display • Good News:We own the patent on the byte (MOD) • Bad News:We do not own the patent on the algorithm. • They are inseparable Program = Procedure + Data

  4. It’s all about Changing Ratios Kilo 103 Mega 106 Giga 109 Tera 1012 Peta 1015 Exa 1018 Zeta 1021 Yotta 1024 • Some things not changing much • cost of people’s 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

  5. 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, ...

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