XML parsing is generally known to have poor performance characteristics relative to transactional database processing. Yet, its potentially fatal impact on overall database perfor...
A common problem within most large corporations nowadays is the diversity of database systems that are employed by their many departments in the development of a product. Usually, ...
Fernando de Ferreira Rezende, Ulrich Hermsen, Geor...
Relational database systems represent the current standard technology for implementing database applications. Now that the object-oriented paradigm becomes more and more mature in...
The ability to monitor a database server is crucial for effective database administration. Today's commercial database systems support two basic mechanisms for monitoring: (a...
A cracked database is a datastore continuously reorganized based on operations being executed. For each query, the data of interest is physically reclustered to speed-up future ac...
Stratos Idreos, Martin L. Kersten, Stefan Manegold