Innovation in Database Management: Computer Science vs. Engineering

摘要

Vendors of commercial database management system face many challenges in incorporating into their products innovative technologies developed in academia. Pragmatic considerations and operational requirements can limit the viability of applying promising research. Technology leadership in commercial products is often the result of taking unconventional approaches rather than following "conventional wisdom", as illustrated with several examples of technologies in Oracle8 and its predecessors. The challenge shared by researchers and practitioners alike: "making what we do matter."