Moving up the food chain: supporting e-commerce applications on databases

Anant Jhingran
2000 SIGMOD record  
Database systems have enjoyed a tremendous market because they have served many applications really well -transaction processing in the beginning, and then decision support. Today, with over 200% cumulative growth rate in certain segments of E-Commerce, it is clear that this new class of applications will be a strong driver for databases to grow, commercially, as well as from a Research perspective. This paper outlines some of the issues that I have learnt in dealing with E-Commerce
more » ... that may well be the focus of some of the research in database systems over the course of next few years.
doi:10.1145/369275.369287 fatcat:2jvz6d5fjfa2lnq2d4ltxekfj4