It has been four decades since the commercial emergence of relational data- base management systems. Since that time, I worked on various database management topics at the birthplace of the relational model and the SQL lan- guage, until my retirement about 3 years ago as an IBM Fellow at IBM Research in Silicon Valley. As someone…

WebAssembly is the newest language for the web, aiming to enable high-performance applications and provide languages such as C/C++ a compilation target so that they can be run on the web. WebAssembly defines a portable binary instruction set, as well as a corresponding textual assembly format. However, WebAssembly's syntax is…