Evolution of the High Performance Database

Overview

Industry technologists preview tomorrow's high-performance database solutions.

Evolution of the High Performance Database is an up-to-the-minute guide to the most exciting trends in database technology, and how they'll impact you and your organization.

In this book, the industry's premier technologists walk you through today's most revolutionary database developments:

Databases on the Web--Netscape founder Marc Andreesen presents the implications of the World Wide Web for database development, and shows how the Web and corporate databases will converse. Then, he previews the radical changes in store for the Internet's infrastructure--and their impact on enterprise databases.

Data Warehousing--Expert Bill Inmon presents strategies for making the most out of today's data warehousing and data mining technologies, showing how dramatic improvements in parallel computing will make possible a new generation of decision-support systems.

Object Relational DBMSs--Widely-known object-DBMS pioneer Michael Stonebraker previews the next wave of object-relational DBMSs and explains why they are exceptionally well-suited to solve tomorrow's important computing and business problems.

Leading database experts from Informix Software and its partners also take a close look at issues of relational database performance, reviewing the most advanced techniques in scalability, extensibility, migration, optimization, tuning, GUI design and usability. You'll discover techniques you can use now to enhance database performance--as well as ways to position yourself for the future.

Your database is critical to your success, no matter whose products you use--or whether you're a user, developer or manager. You need to understand where database technology is headed. This book is your personal briefing--straight from the world's premier technologists.

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