The advent of affordable, shared-nothing computing systems portends a new class of parallel database management systems (DBMS) for on-line transaction processing (OLTP) applicatio...
Over the last decades, improvements in CPU speed have outpaced improvements in main memory and disk access rates by orders of magnitude, enabling the use of data compression techn...
Advanced applications in fields like electronic publishing and telecooperation face the problem of handling multimedia information. Conventional database systems do not offer adeq...
Abstract. The C++ language has only a limited runtime type information system, which doesn’t provide full reflection capabilities. We present a general mechanism to support refle...
Abstract. Understanding a large schema without the assistance of persons already familiar with it (and its associated applications), is a hard and very time consuming task that occ...