What Goes Around Comes Around [pdf]

This paper looked familiar to me, and it turns out it's because it's part of the 4th edition of Readings in Database Systems (or the Red Book). The 5th edition is freely available to read online, and is worth the read/skim.

http://www.redbook.io/

from the abstract of a WIP followup to this article (co-authored by stonebraker and andy pavlo) - "We revisit this issue and argue that little has changed since 2005." [1]

[1] https://twitter.com/andy_pavlo/status/1659740200266870787

Published in Readings in Database Systems (2005)

tl;dr A 40 page review of dbms architecture data models by Michael Stonebreaker (of Postgre) and Joseph Hellerstein. This seems to be a 1990s or 2000s paper, given the treatment of xml-based proto-non-relatonal databases. The paper treats:

  hierarchal (IMS)
  network (codasyl)
  relational
  e-r
  semantic
  object oriented
  object relational
  semi-structured