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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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miChaeL J. CaRey suRaJit ChauDhuRi the
anhai DOan Claremont
DanieLa fLOResCu
miChaeL J. fRankLin heCtOR GaRCia-mOLina Report on
JOhannes GehRke Le GRuen WaLD Database
LauRa m. haas aLOn y. haLeVy Research
JOsePh m. heLLeRstein
yannis e. iOanniDis
hank f. kORth
DOnaLD kOssmann
samueL maDDen
ROGeR maGOuLas
BenG Chin OOi
tim O’ReiLLy
RaGhu RamakRishnan
sunita saRa WaGi
miChaeL stOneBRakeR
aLeXanDeR s. szaLay
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