Database technology is a major component of modern information technology and have an important place in the development of knowledge based economy for it relates directly to the progress of one nation s informationization. This paper reviews the 30-year growing process of database technology and discusses the stain quo of all kinds of databases that are in vogue at present and also illustrates the developing trend of database technology.
Received: 16 October 1998
Published: 25 October 1999