We initiate the study of sublinear-time algorithms in the external memory model [14]. In this model, the data is stored in blocks of a certain size B, and the algorithm is charged...
Alexandr Andoni, Piotr Indyk, Krzysztof Onak, Roni...
SQL tuning--the attempt to improve a poorly-performing execution plan produced by the database query optimizer-is a critical aspect of database performance tuning. Ironically, as ...
The need for high availability and performance in data management systems has been fueling a long running interest in database replication from both academia and industry. However...
Emmanuel Cecchet, George Candea, Anastasia Ailamak...
Current approaches to develop information extraction (IE) programs have largely focused on producing precise IE results. As such, they suffer from three major limitations. First, ...
Warren Shen, Pedro DeRose, Robert McCann, AnHai Do...
Testing of database applications is crucial for ensuring high software quality as undetected faults can result in unrecoverable data corruption. The problem of database applicatio...