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Publication
SIGMOD Record (ACM Special Interest Group on Management of Data)
Paper
Moving up the food chain: Supporting E-Commerce applications on databases
Abstract
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 applications that may well be the focus of some of the research in database systems over the course of next few years.