The demand for real-time database services has been increasing recently. Examples include sensor data fusion, stock trading, decision support, web information services, and data-i...
There is a class of data, including messages and business workflow state, for which conventional monolithic databases are less than ideal. Performance and scalability of Applicati...
Although an optimistic approach has been shown to be better than locking protocols for real-time database systems (RTDBS), it has the problems of unnecessary restarts and heavy re...
Data mining on large relational databases has gained popularity and its significance is well recognized. However, the performance of SQL based data mining is known to fall behind ...
One of the most difficult tasks in the design of information systems is how to control the behaviour of the back-end storage engine, usually a relational database. As the load on t...