Data replication can help database systems meet the stringent temporal constraints of current time-critical applications, especially Internet-based services. A prerequisite, howev...
Ming Xiong, Krithi Ramamritham, Jayant R. Haritsa,...
Cooperative Information Systems (CIS) often consist of applications that access shared resources such as databases. Since centralized systems may have a great impact on the system...
Critical sections in database storage engines impact performance and scalability more as the number of hardware contexts per chip continues to grow exponentially. With enough thre...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Anastasia Ailamak...
— We discuss the problem of resource provisioning for database management systems operating on top of an Infrastructure-As-A-Service (IaaS) cloud. To solve this problem, we descr...
Experience with relational systems has shown that distribution is an effective way of improving the scalability of query evaluation. In this paper, we show how distributed query e...