Evolution Of The High Performance Database (prentice Hall Informix Press Series)

Evolution of the High Performance Database is an up-to-the-minute guide to the most exciting trends in database technology, and how they'll impact you and your organization. In this book, the industry's premier technologists walk you through today's most revolutionary database developments: Databases on the Web, Data Warehousing, and Object Directional DBMS's. Leading database experts from Informix Software and its partners also take a close look at issues of relational database performance, reviewing the most advanced techniques in scalability, extensibility, migration, optimization, tuning, GUI design and usability. You'll discover techniques you can use now to enhance database performance - as well as ways to position yourself for the future.

This book is a selection of the best articles from Informix Tech Notes, which is normally available only to customers. Contributions from leading technologists, such as Michael Stonebraker and Bill Inmon, describe the evolution of RDBMS and the impact new technologies are having on the traditional models. Articles cover the implications of Web development, object-relational technology, data warehousing, High-Performance Database issues, GUI criteria, and usability requirements. Although the articles are written for a technical audience of developers and designers, any reader tracking IT trends will find this book useful. The book also functions as a good resource for Informix products and solutions.