Considerable progress has been achieved in the area of virtual database systems, but substantial problems still persist. In this paper we discuss two current research directions: ...
Scientific data offers some of the most interesting challenges in data integration today. Scientific fields evolve rapidly and accumulate masses of observational and experiment...
Partha Pratim Talukdar, Zachary G. Ives, Fernando ...
The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
The shift to multi-core hardware brings new challenges to database systems, as the software parallelism determines performance. Even though database systems traditionally accommod...
Ryan Johnson, Ippokratis Pandis, Radu Stoica, Mano...
Peer-to-peer database systems (P2PDBs) aim at providing database services with node autonomy, high availability and loose coupling between participating nodes by building the DBMS...