The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures --- A Historical Review (Keynote Talk)

  • Authors:
  • Per Svensson

  • Affiliations:
  • Dept. of Decision Support Systems, Swedish Defence Research Agency, Stockholm, Sweden SE 164 90

  • Venue:
  • SSDBM '08 Proceedings of the 20th international conference on Scientific and Statistical Database Management
  • Year:
  • 2008

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Abstract

My intention in this lecture is to discuss the evolution of key concepts behind today's emerging vertical database architectures. The Cantor project [5, 7] pioneered the analysis and coordinated application of many of these concepts in relational systems, which is one reason why references to this work are a recurring theme in what follows. The other reason is that although the work was duly reported in reasonably well-known conference publications, it has left no trace in citations. Thus, from a strictly evolutionary perspective, Cantor was a dead branch which left no progeny, but from a historical perspective it might still provide useful lessons.