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Databases and Visualization: Future Prospects

The High Road - New Database Requirements

Multi-level storage:
terabyte (and petabyte) storage impose very complex storage architectures
Animation:
databases need to get smarter to be able to fetch time-series data at animation rates
Query-by-content capability:
user queries are becoming more sophisticated and context dependent