An ad hoc data source is any semistructured data source for which useful data analysis and transformation tools are not readily available. Such data must be queried, transformed a...
Kathleen Fisher, David Walker, Kenny Qili Zhu, Pet...
Mismanagement of the persistent state of a system--all the executable files, configuration settings and other data that govern how a system functions--causes reliability problems,...
Chad Verbowski, Emre Kiciman, Arunvijay Kumar, Bra...
A multi-tenant database system for Software as a Service (SaaS) should offer schemas that are flexible in that they can be extended for different versions of the application and d...
Stefan Aulbach, Dean Jacobs, Alfons Kemper, Michae...
As peer-to-peer (P2P) networks become more familiar to the database community, intense interest has built up in using their scalability and resilience properties to scale database...
Database outsourcing becomes increasingly attractive as advances in network technologies eliminate the perceived performance difference between in-house databases and outsourced d...