Inadequacy of TraditionalDatabase Systems

• Building advanced applications requires too much work.

• Problems with traditional DBs

  • Tuned for data processing
    • simple records
    • short-duration transactions
  • Lack support for
    • complex data (large objects, multimedia)
    • behavior modeling (complex operations, active behavior)
    • long-running interactions
    • time-based data and version control

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