Scientific database federations are geographically distributed and network bound. Thus, they could benefit from proxy caching. However, existing caching techniques are not suitabl...
Tuning database system configuration parameters to proper values according to the expected query workload plays a very important role in determining DBMS performance. However, the ...
Biplob K. Debnath, Mohamed F. Mokbel, David J. Lil...
Progressive Optimization (POP) is a technique to make query plans robust, and minimize need for DBA intervention, by repeatedly re-optimizing a query during runtime if the cardina...
Vijayshankar Raman, Volker Markl, David E. Simmen,...
Making multi-terabyte scientific databases publicly accessible over the Internet is increasingly important in disciplines such as Biology and Astronomy. However, contention at a c...
Xiaodan Wang, Tanu Malik, Randal C. Burns, Stratos...
Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman