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My intention in this lecture is to discuss the evolution of key concepts behind today’s emerging vertical database architectures. The Cantor project [5, 7] pioneered the analysis and coordinated application of many of these concepts in relational systems, which is one reason why references to this work are a recurring theme in what follows. The other reason is that although the work was duly reported in reasonably well-known conference publications, it has left no trace in citations. Thus, from a strictly evolutionary perspective, Cantor was a dead branch which left no progeny, but from a historical perspective it might still provide useful lessons.
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Svensson, P. (2008). The Evolution of Vertical Database Architectures – A Historical Review (Keynote Talk). In: Ludäscher, B., Mamoulis, N. (eds) Scientific and Statistical Database Management. SSDBM 2008. Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol 5069. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-69497-7_3
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