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FGCN
2007
IEEE
113views Communications» more  FGCN 2007»
14 years 2 months ago
Improving Disk Sector Integrity Using 3-dimension Hashing Scheme
To keep the evidence that a stored hard disk does not modify its content, the intuitive scheme is to calculate a hash value of the data in all the sectors in a specific order. Ho...
Zoe L. Jiang, Lucas Chi Kwong Hui, K. P. Chow, Siu...
CIKM
2007
Springer
14 years 2 months ago
Index compression is good, especially for random access
Index compression techniques are known to substantially decrease the storage requirements of a text retrieval system. As a side-effect, they may increase its retrieval performanc...
Stefan Büttcher, Charles L. A. Clarke
SIGMOD
2009
ACM
130views Database» more  SIGMOD 2009»
14 years 8 months ago
FlashLogging: exploiting flash devices for synchronous logging performance
Synchronous transactional logging is the central mechanism for ensuring data persistency and recoverability in database systems. Unfortunately, magnetic disks are ill-suited for t...
Shimin Chen