In addition to the great links from siblings, it might be interesting to read this Stonebraker paper on the cyclical nature of databases and how, ultimately, th

In addition to the great links from siblings, it might be interesting to read this Stonebraker paper on the cyclical nature of databases and how, ultimately, they all reduce to a few core paradigms. [0] [0] http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/courses/764-sp07-anhai/datamodel.pdf http://pages.cs.wisc.edu/~anhai/courses/764-sp07-anhai/datam...