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Database management systems (DBMS) are designed to manage large and complex

data sets. In the past several decades, advances in computing hardware and software and the need to handle rapidly accumulating data archived in digital media

have led to significant progress in DBMS research and development. DBMS have

grown from simple software programs that handled flat files on mainframe computers, which were prohibitively expensive to all but a few prestigious institutions, into

today’s popular form of specialized software platforms underpinning wide ranges

of tasks, which include business transactions, Web searches, inventory management, financial forecasts, multimedia development, mobile networks, pervasive

computing, and scientific knowledge discovery. Technologies of DBMS have also

become increasingly sophisticated, diverging from generic relational DBMS into

object-relational DBMS, object-oriented DBMS, in-memory DBMS, semantic Webs

data store, and specialized scientific DBMS. Given the sustained exponential data

growth rate brought forth by continued adoption of computing in major industries

and new inventions of personal digital devices, one can safely predict that DBMS

development will continue to thrive in the next millennium