Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Database queries often take the form of correlated SQL queries. Correlation refers to the use of values from the outer query block to compute the inner subquery. This is a conveni...
Content delivery networks have evolved beyond traditional distributed caching. With services such as Akamai's EdgeComputing it is now possible to deploy and run enterprise bu...
As database application performance depends on the utilization of the memory hierarchy, smart data placement plays a central role in increasing locality and in improving memory ut...
Minglong Shao, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser...
Rapid advances in mobile communication technology have spawned many new mobile applications. A key element in many of these systems is the need to distribute real-time information...