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...
The Internet has become the most frequently accessed medium for obtaining various types of data. In particular, government agencies, academic institutions, and private enterprises...
Background: High throughput laboratory techniques generate huge quantities of scientific data. Laboratory Information Management Systems (LIMS) are a necessary requirement, dealin...
James A. Morris, Simon A. Gayther, Ian J. Jacobs, ...
Social networking applications have become very important web services that provide Internet-based platforms for their users to interact with their friends. With the advances in t...
Joins are essential for many data analysis tasks, but are not supported directly by the MapReduce paradigm. While there has been progress on equi-joins, implementation of join alg...