Database Research: Achievements and Opportunities Into the 21st Century
In February of 1990, a group of database researchers met to examine the prospects for future database research e orts. The resulting report (Silberschatz et al. [1990]) was instrumental in bringing to the public's attention both the signi cance of prior database research and the number of challenging and important problems that lay ahead. We shall not repeat here the major points made in that report concerning the historical development of relational database systems and transaction management. Rather the reader is encouraged to consult either that report or an on-line document (Gray [1995]), each of which discusses these and other historical achievements of database research. In May of 1995, a second workshop was convened to consider anew the prospects for database research, and this paper reports on our ndings. The following points summarize the conclusions of this forum.