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Explore the key challenges faced by the database community and potential solutions to improve data storage, access, organization, and integration. Discuss the need to unify code and data, develop self-organizing and secure data stores, and address semantic and system-related issues.
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Grand Challenges for the Database Community Jim GrayMicrosoft
Grand ChallengeMemex: Make it easy to • Capture, store everything I see and hear,and things I might want to see and hear. • Access that information instantly. • Present answers in the most understandable form. • Anticipate my questions.
No Knobs Data Stores • Build a data store that • Self-organizes the data • Never forgets • Is secure
Unify Code and Data • Sql unified data definition, manipulation, control lanuages. • But…DB and app are separate today: they should not be • XML needs to become DXML • Active databases are a good idea. • Publish/Subscribe is a good model • Build a system where programs and data are integrated. • There are semantic issues: data modeland unsolved systems issues perf/ security/ schema evolution/