The Large Data Construct: A New Frontier in Database Design.
Stephen E. Arnold · 1990
Rapid advances in microcomputer processing power have accelerated the development of multi-object databases. These new information constructs require different record layouts, demand the inclusion on non-searchable strings, and place different demands upon the query logic in the software and in the mind of the searcher. Traditional databases are typically collections of fairly uniform records. These are usually abstracts, indices, and full text in a range of combinations. Such traditional databases are collections or small data constructs. The new databases combine text, images, recorded or synthesized voice, and other objects. Databases that contain multiple objects represent the data. Such representations are large data constructs. This new terminology reminds the database builder and the consumer of information that fundamentally different approaches to large data constructs are the only way to explore these radically different databases. Berkeley Sunday: Hit Fat Apple’s, check out the New York Times and Sun Jose Mercury News, ond flip through the most recent Whole forth Review. I am sitting in the sun and