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Modern DBMSs

Demands from modern applications
  • more flexible data structuring mechanisms
  • very large data objects/values (e.g. music, video)
  • alternative comparisons/filters   (e.g. similarity matching)
  • massive amounts of data   (too much to store "locally")
  • massive number of clients   (thousands tx's per second)
  • solid-state storage   (minimal data latency)
  • data required globally   (network latency)
Clearly, not all of these are relevant for every modern application.