Database Trends and Directions: Current Challenges and Opportunities.
George Feuerlicht · DATESO · 2010
Database management has undergone more than four decades of evolution producing vast range of research and extensive array of technology solutions. The database research community and software industry has responded to numerous challenges resulting from changes in user requirements and opportunities presented by hardware advances. The relational database approach as represented by SQL databases has been particularly successful and one of the most durable paradigms in computing. Most recent database challenges include internet-scale databases – databases that manage hundreds of millions of users and cloud databases that use novel techniques for managing massive amounts of data. In this paper we review the evolution of database management systems over the last four decades and then focus on the most recent database developments discussing research and implementation challenges presented by modern database applications.