PPT Slide
Relational Databases: A Success Story
- The relational model has been a big success
- Simplicity has made research tractable
- Data independence yields productivity gains
- Both academia and industry have benefitted
- Relational DBMS "goodies" include
- Efficient query optimization and execution
- Well-defined transaction semantics and support
- Excellent multi-user performance and robustness
- Views for data independence, authorization
- Constraints, triggers, and stored procedures for (shared) business rule capture/enforcement
- "The" success story for parallel computing