Editing Database (section)

==Research==

Database technology has been an active research topic since the 1960s, both in [[academia]] and in the research and development groups of companies (for example [[IBM Research]]). Research activity includes [[Database theory|theory]] and development of [[prototype]]s. Notable research topics have included [[Data model|models]], the atomic transaction concept, related [[concurrency control]] techniques, query languages and [[query optimization]] methods, [[RAID]], and more.

The database research area has several dedicated [[academic journal]]s (for example, ''[[ACM Transactions on Database Systems]]''-TODS, ''[[Data and Knowledge Engineering]]''-DKE) and annual [[Academic conference|conferences]] (e.g., [[Association for Computing Machinery|ACM]] [[SIGMOD]], ACM [[Symposium on Principles of Database Systems|PODS]], [[VLDB conference|VLDB]], [[IEEE]] ICDE).