[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] Jim Gray article on Next Generation Databases
I thought this was a very seminal article: http://www.acmqueue.org/modules.php?name=Content&pa=printer_friendly&pid=293&page=1 Precis: > People and organizations are being buried under an unrelenting > onslaught of information. As a consequence, everything you thought was > true about database architectures is being re-thought. > > Most importantly, algorithms and data are being unified by integrating > familiar, portable programming languages into database systems, such > that all those design rules you were taught about separating code from > data simply won’t apply any longer. Instead, you’ll work with > extensible object-relational database systems where nonprocedural > relational operators can be used to manipulate object sets. Coupled > with that, database systems are well on their way to becoming Web > services—and this will have huge implications in terms of how we > structure applications. Within this new mind-set, DBMSs become object > containers, with queues being the first objects that need to be added. > It’s on the basis of these queues that future transaction processing > and workflow applications will be built. > > In response, databases are evolving from SQL engines to data > integrators and mediators that offer transactional and nonprocedural > access to data in many different forms. This means database systems > are effectively becoming database operating systems, into which > various subsystems and applications can be readily plugged. Seems like an interesting starting point for thinking about the relationship between XQuery and SOA, and their relationship to other systems. Jonathan
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