We present recommendations on Performance Management for databases supporting Binary Large Objects (BLOB) that, under a wide range of conditions, save both storage space and datab...
In this position paper, we argue that an important piece of the system administration puzzle has largely been left untouched by researchers. This piece involves mechanisms and pol...
This paper presents an architecture for a persistent object store in which multi-level storage is explicitly included. Traditionally, DBMSs have assumed that all accessible data r...
The Atropos logical volume manager allows applications to exploit characteristics of its underlying collection of disks. It stripes data in track-sized units and explicitly expose...
Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser, Minglong Shao...
As data volumes rise and retention periods increase, the appearance of "better, faster and cheaper" storage infrastructure seems like an all-encompassing solution to con...