Database Issues for the 21st century

Summary: Web-scale growth outstrips database innovations; Moore's law boosts throughput while schemas and edge caches hide latency. Highlights lack of universal web data access (no ODBC/SQL for the web, no HTML for information) and argues for standard wire formats to retrieve information from diverse sources. (summarized by gpt-5-nano on Feb 09 2026)

Paper ID: 3753
Venue: SIGMOD
Year: 2005
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,851 | 4.97%
DOI: 10.1145/1066157.1066255

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Authors

1. Adam Bosworth (Google)

BibTeX Citation

@inproceedings{bosworth_sigmod05,
        title = {{Database Issues for the 21st century}},
        author = {Bosworth, Adam},
        series = {{SIGMOD} '05},
        booktitle = {Proceedings of the {ACM} {SIGMOD} International Conference on Management of Data},
        publisher = {Association for Computing Machinery},
        doi = {10.1145/1066157.1066255},
        url = {https://dl.acm.org/doi/10.1145/1066157.1066255},
        year = {2005}
}

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