Michael Stonebraker works at MIT and has just released a paper that's part of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems Research (CIDR) on January 7-10, 2007, Asilomar, California, USA. He and his fellow authors describe some of the limits of RDBMSes and projects some future architectures. He and his group worked with lots of data (~600 Gb in one case) and talks about columnar-oriented (vs. conventional row) databases, star schemas, stream-based processing, array storage and more.
Slashdot points to the white paper at: http://nms.csail.mit.edu/~stavros/pubs/osfa.pdf Interesting reading. -- Ted Roche Ted Roche & Associates, LLC http://www.tedroche.com _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: ProFox@leafe.com Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
