Radically Restructured Database Architectures
I just finished reading A Call to Arms, an interesting article about various aspects of future database architectures. Quotes:
"...relational operators make up nothing more than the outer loop of
nonprocedural programs and so really must be executed in parallel and
at the lowest possible cost."
"For petabyte-scale databases, the only solution may be to run
continuous data scans, with queries piggybacked on top of the scans."
This last one seems to have already arrived with SQLite:
"Indeed, if every file system, every disk, every phone, every TV,
every camera, and every piece of smart dust is to have a database
inside, then those database systems will need to be self-managing,
self-organizing, and self-healing."
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