1. Relational DatabaseData Grid Oracle Sybase DB2 MySQL Others Integrasoft Avaki Others Data Management Tables Query Language Procedures Locking Indexing Relations Triggers Data Management Tables, arrays and matrices Data Atoms Data Region Data affinity Data Sync Notification Transactional Others Engines Disk Management Bit/byte organisation Engines Distributed Cache Metadata

3. Capabilities Security Manageablity Agility Goals Efficiency Profitability Control Uncertainty Complexity Distribution Maturing TechnologyNew Opportunities World Events Market Dynamics Grid Computing

4. Batch Synchronous Static data Nontransactional Atomic Synchronous Static Data Nontransactional Atomic Asynchronous Static Data Nontransactional Atomic Asynchronous Dynamic data Nontransactional Atomic Synchronous Static data Transactional Atomic Asynchronous Dynamic data Transactional Atomic Asynchronous Static data Transactional Batch Synchronous Static data Transactional Application Complexity Work Time Data Transactional Data Grid QoS Level 0 Level 1 OLAP Real-time datamart Monte Carlo Simulation

5. Tables Triggers Stored Procedures Intra-table fields Table/row level Table joins SQL Indexes Ordered Structure Events Distributed procedures Cross-structure Data atom level Data atom Programmatic string base Tags Schema Events Optimizations Indexing Locking Relation Query Repeated data access Data Regions and DBMS

6. Compute- intensive analytics OLAP data analysis Data Center operations Compute Utility services Value at risk Credit risk Real-time risk management Automated trade programs Anti-money laundering Credit card (risk and customer Data mining) Billing In-process system migration High fault tolerance Geographic data center independence for failover and business applications Data center compute farms Corporate compute utility services creating a low- cost infrastructure similar to the electric grid

7. Distributed Computing Evolution File sharing CORBAData translation Data queuesPublish/SubscribeSmart routing Pipes/socketsClustersData gridsUtility service Middleware Client/Server Grid Computing

8. WebServices Business process Data Grid plane Delivershas Requires State