Predictions and Challenges for Database Systems in the Year 2000
Summary: A visionary assessment of relational database technology after two decades, distilling its state and the author’s personal technical predictions for systems in 2000. Highlights anticipated research challenges and directions rather than presenting a specific system. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)
Incoming Non-self Citations Over Time
Authors
- 1. Patricia G. Selinger (IBM)
BibTeX Citation
@article{selinger_vldb93,
title = {{Predictions and Challenges for Database Systems in the Year 2000}},
author = {Selinger, Patricia G.},
journal = {PVLDB},
series = {{VLDB} '93},
pages = {667},
year = {1993}
}Incoming Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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| Rank | Citing Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 3,760 | Query Processing in Tertiary Memory Databases | 1995 | VLDB | 7.1460125e-05 |
| 4,241 | Dynamic Multi-Resource Load Balancing in Parallel Database Systems | 1995 | VLDB | 6.8094303e-05 |
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Outgoing Citations (Sorted by Pagerank)
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Citations counted here include only citations to other VLDB/SIGMOD/CIDR/PODS papers in this database.
| Rank | Cited Paper | Year | Venue | Pagerank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 325 | Implementation Of A Structured English Query Language | 1975 | SIGMOD | 0.00021162719 |
| 650 | The Sequoia 2000 Storage Benchmark | 1993 | SIGMOD | 0.00015319951 |
| 1,445 | Recovery and Coherency-Control Protocols for Fast Intersystem Page Transfer and Fine-Granularity Locking in a Shared Disks Transaction Environment | 1991 | VLDB | 0.00010769388 |
| 3,347 | Atomic Incremental Garbage Collection and Recovery for a Large Stable Heap | 1993 | SIGMOD | 7.4966771e-05 |
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