New storage-class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phasechange memory, STT-RAM, and memristors, promise user-level access to non-volatile storage through regular memory instruct...
In order to create new opportunities for competitive differentiation, organisations are starting to shift their focus from transactional operational Business Processes (BPs) to ot...
—The emergence of multi-processor, multi-threaded architectures (referred to as multi- architectures) facilitates the design of high-throughput request processing systems (e.g., ...
As main memory capacity increases, more of the database read requests will be satis ed from the bu er system. Consequently, the amount of disk write operations relative to disk re...
Optimistic synchronization allows concurrent execution of critical sections while performing dynamic conflict detection and recovery. Optimistic synchronization will increase perf...