Big Plateaus of Big Data on the Big Island

Summary: A 40-year retrospective on successive “Big Data” plateaus conquered by database systems, framed through VLDB and Teradata history. Recasts database research as enduring trade-off management shaped by hardware evolution, and forecasts the next plateaus. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 11309
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2015
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,644 | 6.71%
DOI: 10.14778/2824032.2824141

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Authors

1. Todd Walter (Teradata)

BibTeX Citation

@article{walter_vldb15,
        title = {{Big Plateaus of Big Data on the Big Island}},
        author = {Walter, Todd},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '15},
        volume = {8},
        number = {12},
        pages = {2057},
        doi = {10.14778/2824032.2824141},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.14778/2824032.2824141},
        year = {2015}
}

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