New Applications

Relational DBs cannot effectively model many new applications:

• multimedia,

• scientific databases,

• CAD,

• CASE,

• GIS,

• data warehousing and OLAP,

• office automation.

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There is a number of new applications, though, that cannot be modeled by relational databases very effectively. That is, if these applications were implemented in a relational system their performance would be unacceptable. These applications include: multimedia which use large objects, scientific databases such as the human genome database, computer-aided design, computer-aided software engineering, geographical information systems, data warehousing and online analytical processing for decision support, and office automation.