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Fourth generation data management systems

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Kevin M. WhitneyAuthors Info & Claims

AFIPS '73: Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition

Pages 239 - 244

https://doi.org/10.1145/1499586.1499657

Published: 04 June 1973 Publication History

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Many hundreds of programming systems have been developed in recent years to aid programmers in the management of large amounnts of data. Some trends in the development of these data management systems are followed in this paper and combined with ideas now being studied to predict the architecture of the next generation of data management systems. The evolution of data management facilities can be grouped into several generations with fuzzy boundaries. Generation zero was the era when each programmer wrote all his own input, output, and data manipulation facilities. A new generation of facilities occurred with the use of standard access methods and standard input/output conversion routines for all programs at an installation or on a particular computer system. The second generation of data management was the development of file manipulation and report writing systems such as RPG, EASYTRIEVE, and MARK IV. Much more comprehensive facilities for the creation, updating, and accessing of large structures of files are included in the third generation of generalized data management systems such as IMS/2, IDS, and the CODASYL specifications. Each of these generations of data management systems marked great increases in system flexibility, generality, modularity, and usability. Before speculating on the future of data management, let us survey this history in more detail.

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AFIPS '73: Proceedings of the June 4-8, 1973, national computer conference and exposition

June 1973

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DOI:10.1145/1499586

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