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The Future of Databases

Posted by timothy on from the your-flight-status-is-'maybe' dept.

gManZboy writes "Ever wonder where database technology is going? This is something that Turing award winner Jim Gray from Microsoft has given a lot of thought to. He recently published an article in which he looks at the many forces pushing database technologies forward, and what those new technologies will look like. Gray writes, 'the greatest of these [research challenges] will have to do with the unification of approximate and exact reasoning. Most of us come from the exact-reasoning world -- but most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers.'"

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  1. Umm, Yep! by CypherXero · · Score: 0, Redundant

    "...the greatest of these [research challenges] will have to do with the unification of approximate and exact reasoning. Most of us come from the exact-reasoning world -- but most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers."

    Just nod your head and agree...umm..yep, I concur!
    Disclaimer: I don't know a damn thing about databases.

  2. Microsoft is taking over the world by n2networksolutions · · Score: 0, Redundant

    Does anyone besides me get the feeling Microsoft is going to take over the world one day? Jeremy MCSE MCSA CCNA http://www.n2networksolutions.com/ Arizona computer consulting