The relational model is dead‚ SQL is dead‚ and I don’t feel so good myself
Paolo Atzeni‚ Christian S. Jensen‚ Giorgio Orsi‚ Sudha Ram‚ Letizia Tanca and Ricardo Torlone
Abstract
We report the opinions expressed by well-known database researchers on the future of the relational model and SQL during a panel at the International Workshop on Non-Conventional Data Access (NoCoDa 2012), held in Florence, Italy in October 2012 in conjunction with the 31st International Conference on Conceptual Modeling. The panelists include: Paolo Atzeni (Università Roma Tre, Italy), Umeshwar Dayal (HP Labs, USA), Christian S. Jensen (Aarhus University, Denmark), and Sudha Ram (University of Arizona, USA). Quotations from movies are used as a playful though effective way to convey the dramatic changes that database technology and research are currently undergoing.