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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. patents by flacco · · Score: -1, Troll
    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.'"


    oh, yay, patent it quick, you fucking douchebags.

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    pr0n - keeping monitor glass spotless since 1981.
  2. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Bah, databases.

    I have my lients all migrated from vendor-lock-in DBs like MYSQL or POSTGERS to a simple system of Excel-sheets, which has a lower cost (TCO) because they need Office anyway. Plus, with Excel, everyone can edit any data, which is a huge point as opposed to the vendor-DBs and their complicated permission-system. Heck, even I do not now how to add a user with MYSQL, and I have an Indian diploma in Computer Sciences.

  3. Generalizing too much? by bogaboga · · Score: 0, Troll
    -- but most of our clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic answers.

    Not when my credit rating is at stake! OR, When an airline agent is mistaking me to be a member of Al Qaida, and therefore denying me a seat on the plane.

    In these cases I want *exact* answers to everything time related.

  4. Greater information in a slashdot journal. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll


    The referenced material could be better, but as usual it's not.

    Thus, performing a slash-dig; I found a Slashdot journal that contains more information related to this story, and here it is. I thought it appeasing that the database authors have a stong coalescence with moslem designs in their software venture. I only wish people would realize that users can journal more information in their journals about databases than any candle brought by one Slashdot pseudo-"Editor".

    I AGREE!

  5. The clowns down the hall by tyates · · Score: 0, Troll

    Queues? Workflows? Business logic? Excuse me for thinking that a database should just store data. I guess that makes me a caveman or something.
    He didn't mention the biggest problem with databases - it's that the clowns down the hall (the DBAs and sysadmins) own it and you don't. I've seen teams store their data in flat files just because they didn't want to deal with those bozos.

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    Tristan Yates
  6. Re:I GOT A GREASED UP YODA DOLL SHOVED UP MY ASS! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

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    an indian diploma in computer sciences sucks my asshole