Foundation Matters

Summary: A wake-up call against treating the relational model as passé: foundational problems remain relevant and unsolved. Surveys the speaker’s two decades of investigations, highlighting enduring intellectual depth and encouraging renewed work on database foundations. (summarized by gpt-5.6-luna on Jul 24 2026)

Paper ID: 9019
Venue: VLDB
Year: 2002
Pagerank: -
Overall Rank: 13,975 | 4.12%
DOI: 10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50009-3

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1. C.J. Date (Independent)

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@article{date_vldb02,
        title = {{Foundation Matters}},
        author = {Date, C.J.},
        journal = {PVLDB},
        series = {{VLDB} '02},
        doi = {10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50009-3},
        url = {https://doi.org/10.1016/B978-155860869-6/50009-3},
        year = {2002}
}

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