A.1 Overview

The main purpose of this appendix is to set the context of the series of books we have written in data management, data mining, and data security. Our series started back in 1997 with our book on Data Management Systems Evolution and Interoperation [THUR97]. Our subsequent books have evolved from this first book. We have essentially repeated Chapter 1 of our first book in Appendix A of our subsequent books. The purpose of this appendix is to provide an overview of data management systems as well as to show how the field has evolved over the years: from data to information to knowledge and now to big data. We will then discuss the relationships between the books we have ...

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