Database Systems of the 90s

This volume contains 14 survey articles by database researchers which present current results in the field and offer future directions regarding the most likely evolution of database technology, products and applications. The volume covers the following topics: the evolution of database technology and its impact on enterprise information systems; demands on database systems in the 1990s (office, engineering, science, multimedia, standardization); user aspects (application programmers, ad hoc query users); database system and architecture concepts for novel applications (data models, object orientation, deductive Database Management Systems (DBMS), extensibility, data replication); and system and implementation aspects (performance and reliability, distributed and co-operative DBMS, hardware impact).