In today’s OLAP systems, integrating fast changing data, e.g., stock quotes, physically into a cube is complex and time-consuming. The widespread use of XML makes it very possib...
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...
Physical database design is important for query performance in a shared-nothing parallel database system, in which data is horizontally partitioned among multiple independent node...
Jun Rao, Chun Zhang, Nimrod Megiddo, Guy M. Lohman
The performance of object reassembly, notably the most expensive operation andthereforemainlydeterminingtheoverallperformance, is clearly crucial for the success of object-oriente...
Sensor networks are promising unprecedented levels of access to information about the physical world, in real time. Many areas of human activity are starting to see the benefits ...