The outstanding problem for today´s database technology

The paper constitutes the proceedings of a panel in which distinguished researchers from academia and industrial research organizations were invited to identify the crucial problem for today´s database technology. C.K. Baru notes that the outstanding problem for today´s database technology is the exploitation of available and anticipated hardware to provide efficient support for the processing of current and proposed data models employed at the conceptual level. D. Batory points out that object-oriented DBMSs (database management systems) offer a tight coupling of programming languages with database systems; extensible DBMSs offer the ability to customize and optimize the internals of a DBMS to suit specific application. He believes that these combined technologies offer the ideal system of the future. D. Hsiao examines problems in database software and database hardware. H.V. Jagadish points out that faster access, greater functionality, and better interfaces have been and will continue to be important goals for any database system. C. Pu notes that choosing the operating system for the development of a new database management system has always been a difficult tradeoff between overhead and portability. Finally, S. Navathe suggests that database research has not paid enough attention to the needs of the consumers of data