In this work we ask the fundamental question: How many bits of information can be stored in a crossbar switching network? The answer is trivial when the switches of the network ar...
Abstract. Many heterogeneous database system products and prototypes exist today; they will soon be deployed in a wide variety of environments. Most existing systems suffer from an...
Services are usually developed and deployed independently; and systems can be formed by composing relevant services to achieve set goals. In such an open and dynamic environment, s...
The authors have developed a new approach to database interoperability using the sketch data model. That technique has now been used in a number of applications, but an important ...
Microsoft SQL Server was successful for many years for transaction processing and decision support workloads with neither merge join nor hash join, relying entirely on nested loop...