Database theory—past and future

  • Authors:
  • J. D. Ullman

  • Affiliations:
  • Stanford University

  • Venue:
  • PODS '87 Proceedings of the sixth ACM SIGACT-SIGMOD-SIGART symposium on Principles of database systems
  • Year:
  • 1987

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Abstract

We briefly sketch the development of the various branches of database theory. One important branch is the theory of relational databases, including such areas as dependency theory, universal-relation theory, and hypergraph theory. A second important branch is the theory of concurrency control and distributed databases. Two other branches have not in the past been given the attention they deserve. One of these is “logic and databases,” and the second is “object-oriented database systems,” which to my thinking includes systems based on the network or hierarchical data models. Both these areas are going to be more influential in the future.