Joint Meeting with IEEE Computer Society and Boston DAMA

The database engines from the major RDBMS vendors were architected in the 1970s, primarily to serve the needs of business data processing. Since that time, as businesses evolved from just processing data to using it more strategically, RDBMSs have been applied in such diverse areas as data warehousing, business intelligence, unstructured content management, and managing scientific and real-time data. Over time, vendors have grafted features onto their engines to support these new applications – for example, materialized views, bitmap indexes and data cubes for the data warehouse market. While there are obvious advantages to this “one-size-fits-all” strategy for database vendors, there is a large cost to customers. Specifically, they are stuck with very poor performance in some of these newer application areas. In this talk, database technology pioneer Dr. Michael Stonebraker will discuss why it is twilight for one-size-fits-all, especially in data warehousing. In addition, he will discuss recent developments in DBMS technology research and why there’s been a recent explosion in the number of new, specialized databases. Technology developments that are transforming DBMS include: * Grid-based parallelism using commodity hardware * New concurrency architectures * Column-oriented database technology * SQL for real-time data stream and event analysis * Aggressive database compression technologies Dr. Stonebraker will briefly discuss these advancements as well as when and how they’ll begin affecting data warehouse and BI implementations and the businesses that use them.