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A few notes from the History of Database Systems BoF

I will not write much on what went on at this BoF, but a few words are appropriate I guess.

  • We were some 10 to 15 people in the room at the end.
  • I started the thing by talking about the ancient history of databases, and went on to talk a bit on the reasons of the Relational databases appeared on the scene.
  • We talked more on these reasons. The old Network and Hierarchical were largely tape oriented, even when data was on disk.
  • My theory on search being a very major factor for adopting the relational database technology in the 1970s and on seemed to be accepted.
  • As I went on to discuss search in an RDBMS being contextual, and the need for non-contextual search caused quite a few debates.
  • That non-contextual search will be a factor in moving to NoSQL, as is a theory of mine, was not accepted by anyone else but myself :-)
  • Contextual and non-contextual serach …
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