Slashdot on The Future of Databases
May 3rd, 2005 by Mark Rittman
The Future of Databases : ""Ever wonder where
database technology is going? This is something that
Turing award winner Jim Gray
from Microsoft has given a lot of thought to. He recently published an article
in which he looks at the many
forces pushing database technologies forward, and what those new
technologies will look like. Gray writes, ‘the greatest of these [research
challenges] will have to do with the unification of approximate and exact
reasoning. Most of us come from the exact-reasoning world — but most of our
clients are now asking questions that require approximate or probabilistic
answers."
