—A major research subject in image databases is to support efficient and effective access to images based on their visual content. In color image databases, this requires to sup...
Alberto Del Bimbo, Mauro Mugnaini, Pietro Pala, F....
Emerging database application domains demand not only new functionality but also high performance. To satisfy these two requirements, the Volcano project provides efficient, exten...
We present an approach to dealing with skew in parallel joins in database systems. Our approach is easily implementable within current parallel DBMS, and performs well on skewed d...
David J. DeWitt, Jeffrey F. Naughton, Donovan A. S...
Data outsourcing is an emerging paradigm that allows users and companies to give their (potentially sensitive) data to external servers that then become responsible for their stor...
Pierangela Samarati, Sabrina De Capitani di Vimerc...
This paper describes an efficient optimistic concurrency control scheme for use in distributed database systems in which objects are cached and manipulated at client machines whil...
Atul Adya, Robert Gruber, Barbara Liskov, Umesh Ma...