Data intensive applications on clusters often require requests quickly be sent to the node managing the desired data. In many applications, one must look through a sorted tree str...
To bridge the increasing processor-disk performance gap, buffer caches are used in both storage clients (e.g. database systems) and storage servers to reduce the number of slow di...
Zhifeng Chen, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Heidi Scot...
In this paper we introduce a novel architecture for data processing, based on a functional fusion between a data and a computation layer. We show how such an architecture can be le...
Radu Sion, Ramesh Natarajan, Inderpal Narang, Wen-...
Wikipedia infoboxes is an example of a seemingly structured, yet extraordinarily heterogeneous dataset, where any given record has only a tiny fraction of all possible fields. Su...
Text corpora are often enhanced by additional metadata which relate real-world entities, with each document in which such entities are discussed. Such relationships are typically ...
Albert Angel, Surajit Chaudhuri, Gautam Das, Nick ...