BibTeX for papers by David Kotz; for complete/updated list see https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/papers.html @Article{choudhary:sdcr, author = {Alok Choudhary and David Kotz}, title = {{Large-Scale File Systems with the Flexibility of Databases}}, journal = {ACM Computing Surveys}, year = 1996, month = {December}, volume = {28A}, number = 4, publisher = {ACM}, copyright = {ACM}, DOI = {10.1145/242224.242488}, URL = {https://www.cs.dartmouth.edu/~kotz/research/choudhary-sdcr/index.html}, note = {Position paper for the Working Group on Storage I/O for Large-Scale Computing, ACM Workshop on Strategic Directions in Computing Research. Available on-line only.}, abstract = {We note that large-scale computing includes many applications with intensive I/O demands. A data-storage system for such applications must address two issues: locating the appropriate data set, and accessing the contents of the data set. Today, there are two extreme models of data location and management: 1) file systems, which can be fast but which require a user to manage the structure of the file-name space and, often, of the file contents; and 2) object-oriented-database systems, in which even the smallest granule of data is stored as an object with associated access methods, which is very flexible but often slow. We propose a solution that may provide the performance of file systems with the flexibility of object databases.}, }