PC Database Systems - Present and Future

Summary: Surveys how PC DBMSs evolved from standalone systems toward remote, mobile, replicated, heterogeneous, and disconnected operation. Argues commodity PCs will reshape database architectures by serving as powerful distributed database servers. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8437
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1994
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 14,328 | 1.70%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. Philip A. Bernstein (Microsoft)

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@article{bernstein_vldb94,
        title = {{PC Database Systems - Present and Future}},
        author = {Bernstein, Philip A.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '94},
        year = {1994}
}

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