Object identification is a crucial step in most information systems. Nowadays, we have many different ways to identify entities such as surrogates, keys and object identifiers. Ho...
We propose a new storage model called MBSM (Multiresolution Block Storage Model) for laying out tables on disks. MBSM is intended to speed up operations such as scans that are typ...
Scalable analysis on large data sets has been core to the functions of a number of teams at Facebook - both engineering and nonengineering. Apart from ad hoc analysis of data and ...
The ScotlandsPlaces project is an official, permanent website found at www.scotlandsplaces.gov.uk. It exhibits a very novel and exciting way of searching across cultural heritage i...
The need to transform data between heterogeneous databases arises from a number of critical tasks in data management. These tasks are complicated by schema evolution in the underl...