This document discusses statistical databases and their requirements. Statistical databases store aggregate statistics rather than individual records for privacy. They support queries for counts, sums, means, and standard deviations. Due to the multidimensional nature of statistical data, new data models and query languages are needed. Examples of statistical query languages are discussed. Techniques like tree-based access methods and optimization help efficiently retrieve statistical data, especially temporal and spatial data. Security challenges also arise from inferring individual records from aggregate statistics. Statistical databases have applications in data visualization, expert systems, and enabling real-time interactive analysis of vast data collections.