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DOi: 10.1145/1516046.1516062

Rakesh aGRa WaL

anastasia aiLamaki

PhiLiP a. BeRnstein

Database research is expanding, with major efforts in system architecture, new languages, cloud services, mobile and virtual worlds, and interplay between structure and text.

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JOhannes GehRke _{Le GRuen WaLD} Database

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hank f. kORth

DOnaLD kOssmann

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BenG Chin OOi

tim O’ReiLLy

RaGhu RamakRishnan

sunita saRa WaGi

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GeRhaRD Weikum

a GrouP oF database researchers, architects, users, and pundits met in May 2008 at the Claremont Resort in Berkeley, CA, to discuss the state of database research and its effects on practice. This was the seventh meeting of this sort over the past 20 years and was distinguished by a broad consensus that the database community is at a turning point in its history, due toboth an explosion of data and usage scenarios and major shifts in computing hardware and platforms.

Here, we explore the conclusions of this self-assessment. It is by definition somewhat inward-focused but may be of interest to the broader computing community as both a window into upcoming directions in database research and