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Requirements from new types of applications call for new database system solutions. Computational science applications performing distributed computations on Grid networks with req...
The popularity of batch-oriented cluster architectures like Hadoop is on the rise. These batch-based systems successfully achieve high degrees of scalability by carefully allocati...
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