RedBD: the database research community in Spain

During the last decade, the Database research community in Spain has grown significantly in the quantity of groups interested in the area, and especially in the quality of those groups. Those database research groups are not in general very large; usually five or six full-time researchers compose them. The economic resources for supporting the researching activity came from public organisms like the Spanish government, the European Union or local governments, and in a less rate from the industry. Research is carried out mainly at the Informatics Departments of the Universities. As the different groups usually share research topics and also fields of applications, in the last years there has been an important movement to join research efforts.