The Lowell database research self-assessment
Serge Abiteboul, Rakesh Agrawal, Phil Bernstein, Mike Carey, Stefano Ceri, Bruce W. Croft, David J. DeWitt, Mike Franklin, Hector Garcia Molina, Dieter Gawlick, Jim Gray, Laura M. Haas, Alon Y. Halevy, Joe Hellerstein, Yannis Ioannidis, Martin L. Kersten, Michael J. Pazzani, Mike Lesk, David Maier, Jeff Naughton · Communications of the ACM · 2005
Database needs are changing, driven by the Internet and increasing amounts of scientific and sensor data. In this article, the authors propose research into several important new directions for database management systems.