Michael Stonebraker works at MIT and has just released a paper that's

part of the 3rd Biennial Conference on Innovative Data Systems

Research (CIDR) on January 7-10, 2007, Asilomar, California, USA. He

and his fellow authors describe some of the limits of RDBMSes and

projects some future architectures. He and his group worked with lots

of data (~600 Gb in one case) and talks about columnar-oriented (vs.

conventional row) databases, star schemas, stream-based processing,

array storage and more.

Slashdot points to the white paper at:

http://nms.csail.mit.edu/~stavros/pubs/osfa.pdf

Interesting reading.

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Ted Roche

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