In addition to indexes and materialized views, horizontal and vertical partitioning are important aspects of physical design in a relational database system that significantly imp...
Clusters of commodity computers are currently being used to provide the scalability required by severalpopular Internet services. In this paper we evaluate an efficient cluster-b...
Enrique V. Carrera, Srinath Rao, Liviu Iftode, Ric...
Known parallel DBMS offer at present only static partitioning schemes. Adding a storage node is then a cumbersome operation that typically requires the manual data redistribution....
Yakham Ndiaye, Aly Wane Diene, Witold Litwin, Tore...
The paper presents various transparency issues that have to be considered during development of object-oriented Grid applications based on virtual repositories. Higher-level transp...
Krzysztof Kaczmarski, Piotr Habela, Hanna Kozankie...
The Internet Distance Map Service (IDMaps) [3] provides distance estimates between any pair of hosts connected to the Internet. The IDMaps system comprises two component types: Tr...