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Red Book, 5th ed. Ch. 1: Background

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I am amazed that these two papers were written a mere decade ago! My amazement about the anatomy paper is that the details have changed a lot - just a few years later. My amazement about the data model paper is that nobody ever seems to learn anything from history. Lets talk about the data model paper first. A decade ago, the buzz was all XML. Vendors were intent on adding XML to their relational engines. Industry analysts (and more than a few researchers) were touting XML as “the next big thing”. A decade later it is a niche product, and the field has moved on. In my opinion, (as predicted in the paper) it succumbed to a combination of: excessive complexity (which nobody could understand) complex extensions of relational engines, which did not seem to perform all that well and no compelling use case where it was wildly accepted It is a bit ironic that a prediction was made in the paper that X would win the Turing Award by successfully simplifying XML. That prediction turned out to be

Chapter 1: Background Introduced by Michael Stonebraker Readings: Joseph M. Hellerstein and Michael Stonebraker. What Goes Around Comes Around . Readings in Database Systems , 4th Edition (2005). Joseph M. Hellerstein, Michael Stonebraker, James Hamilton. Architecture of a Database System . Foundations and Trends in Databases , 1, 2 (2007). I am amazed that these two papers were written a mere decade ago! My amazement about the anatomy paper is that the details have changed a lot - just a few years later. My amazement about the data model paper is that nobody ever seems to learn anything from

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