Copyright 2002 by
Prentice Hall, Inc.
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A Look to the Future
§NASA
needs to store 1016 bytes of satellite images, enough to fill 10K optical disk jukeboxes
§CAD
data for a skyscraper
§DNA
sequence of human genome, several billion elements long for genetic make-up research
§Customer
buying patters at large retail chains - data mining
§Multimedia
DB of insurance policies
§Design
databases should notify designers when another designer has made a modification to the system
§Need
new data models to handle spatial data, time, and uncertainty