Third-generation database system manifesto
Michael R Stonebraker, Lawrence A. Rowe, Bruce G. Lindsay, Jim Gray, Michael J. Carey, Michael L. Brodie, Philip A. Bernstein, David J. Beech · ACM SIGMOD Record · 1990
We call the older hierarchical and network systems first generation datftha~ systems and refer to the current collection of relmional systems as the second generation.In this paper we consider the characteristics that must be ~ri~fied by the next generation of data managexs, which we call third generation database systems.Our requirements are collected into three ba~iq tenets along with 13 more detailed proposilions.