External sorting--the process of sorting a file that is too large to fit into the computer's internal memory and must be stored externally on disks--is a fundamental subroutin...
We describe the design and implementation of a new data layout scheme, called multi-dimensional clustering, in DB2 Universal Database Version 8. Many applications, e.g., OLAP and ...
Efficient query processing is one of the basic needs for data mining algorithms. Clustering algorithms, association rule mining algorithms and OLAP tools all rely on efficient quer...
Lazy replication is a popular technique for improving the performance and availability of database systems. Although there are concurrency control techniques which guarantee seria...
Middleware layers placed between user clients and application servers have been used to perform a variety of functions to support the vision of nomadic computing across varying pla...