Very Large Databases: How Large? How Different?

Summary: Argues that commodity hardware, pervasive PCs, faster storage/compute, and the Internet will fundamentally redefine “very large” databases. Warns that specialized, monolithic VLDB architectures may become obsolete unless they adapt to this radically different landscape. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 8505
Venue: VLDB
Year: 1995
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Overall Rank: 14,290 | 1.96%
DOI: -

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Authors

1. David Vaskevitch (Microsoft)

BibTeX Citation

@article{vaskevitch_vldb95,
        title = {{Very Large Databases: How Large? How Different?}},
        author = {Vaskevitch, David},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '95},
        pages = {677},
        year = {1995}
}

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