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Future of Database (cont)

How to overcome (some) RDBMS limitations?

Extend the relational model ...

  • add new data types and query ops for new applications
  • deal with uncertainty/inaccuracy/approximation in data
Replace the relational model ...
  • object-oriented DBMS ... OO programming with persistent objects
  • XML DBMS ... all data stored as XML documents, new query model
  • noSQL data stores (e.g. (key,value) pairs, json or rdf)