Moving up the food chain: supporting e-commerce applications on databases

  • Authors:
  • Anant Jhingran

  • Affiliations:
  • IBM Almaden Research Center

  • Venue:
  • ACM SIGMOD Record
  • Year:
  • 2000

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Abstract

Database systems have enjoyed a tremendous market because they have served many applications really well -- transaction processing in the beginning, and then decision support. Today, with over 200% cumulative growth rate in certain segments of E-Commerce, it is clear that this new class of applications will be a strong driver for databases to grow, commercially, as well as from a Research perspective. This paper outlines some of the issues that I have learnt in dealing with E-Commerce applications that may well be the focus of some of the research in database systems over the course of next few years.