Twenty years of commercial relational database technology

Andrew Mendelsohn
Senior Vice President of Oracle

andrew.mendelsohn@oracle.com

Abstract

I will review the key technology developments in commercial database products over the last twenty years from the Oracle perspective. Some areas I'll explore are platform independence, concurrency control, distributed database, programmable databases, parallel query processing, VLDB, object-relational, and cluster technologies. I'll close with some words on future directions for commercial databases.