The database tier of dynamic content servers at large Internet sites is typically hosted on centralized and expensive hardware. Recently, research prototypes have proposed using d...
We propose a new approach to accessing databases through the Web that is based on the WebDAV protocol (Web-based Distributed Authoring and Versioning). This paper introduces an ex...
Abstract. A large amount of biological knowledge today is only available from full-text research papers. Since neither manual database curators nor users can keep up with the rapid...
This paper presents the architecture and characteristics of a memory database intended to be used as a cache engine for web applications. Primary goals of this database are speed a...
Utility computing delivers compute and storage resources to applications as an `on-demand utility', much like electricity, from a distributed collection of computing resource...