This assignment gives you an opportunity to speculate on the future of databases, database technology, and database usage. Driving forces and directions. Database Systems of the 90s , 15-33. The authors of this article discuss requirements for full-scale development and adoption of various database models or technologies. In section 5, they list 6 propositions, or predictions, for the future of databases.
Relational systems are there to stay.
For the new applications, database systems lose their identify. Database functionality will be highly distributed and autonomous. Database and telecommunication functionalities will merge. Database systems will have to deal with inexact and inconsistent data. Database systems will have immediate contacts to the physical world.