A consistent backup, preserving data integrity across files in a file system, is of utmost importance for the purpose of correctness and minimizing system downtime during the proc...
Managing a combined store consisting of database data and file data in a robust and consistent manner is a challenge for database systems and content management systems. In such a...
Suparna Bhattacharya, C. Mohan, Karen Brannon, Ind...
It is well known that transactional and analytical systems each require different database architecture. In general, the database structure of transactional systems is optimized f...
User written transaction code is responsible for the "C" in ACID transactions, i.e., taking the database from one consistent state to the next. However, user transaction...
The DataLinks technology developed at IBM Almaden Research Center and now available in DB2 UDB 5.2 introduces a new data type called DATALINK for a database to reference and manag...