Some discourse structures such as enumerative structures have typographical, punctuational and laying out characteristics which (1) make them easily identifiable and (2) convey hi...
Writing deterministic programs is often difficult for problems whose optimal solutions depend on unpredictable properties of the programs’ inputs. Difficulty is also encounter...
Occasional corruption of stored data is an unfortunate byproduct of the complexity of modern systems. Hardware errors, software bugs, and mistakes by human administrators can corr...
Facebook recently deployed Facebook Messages, its first ever user-facing application built on the Apache Hadoop platform. Apache HBase is a database-like layer built on Hadoop des...
Dhruba Borthakur, Jonathan Gray, Joydeep Sen Sarma...
Table partitioning splits a table into smaller parts that can be accessed, stored, and maintained independent of one another. From their traditional use in improving query perform...