Abstract. Classical buffer replacement policies, e.g., LRU, are suboptimal for database systems having flash disks for persistence, because they are not aware of the distinguished ...
This paper presents a scalable and adaptive decentralized metadata lookup scheme for ultra large-scale file systems (≥ Petabytes or even Exabytes). Our scheme logically organiz...
Yu Hua, Yifeng Zhu, Hong Jiang, Dan Feng, Lei Tian
In this paper we present a prototype system for the management of earth science data which is novel in that it takes a DBMS centric view of the the task. Our prototype -- called &...
XML is here as the internet standard for information exchange among e-businesses and applications. With its dramatic adoption and its ability to model structured, unstructured and...
Erlang/OTP's DBMS Mnesia is lacking in several important areas to consider when implementing very large databases with massive scalability requirements. This article reveals ...