The query models of the recent generation of very large scale distributed (VLSD) shared-nothing data storage systems, including our own PNUTS and others (e.g. BigTable, Dynamo, Ca...
Parag Agrawal, Adam Silberstein, Brian F. Cooper, ...
A multi-tenant database system for Software as a Service (SaaS) should offer schemas that are flexible in that they can be extended for different versions of the application and d...
Stefan Aulbach, Dean Jacobs, Alfons Kemper, Michae...
HoTMaN (HoT-standby MaNager) is a joint research and development project between MySpace and USC Database Laboratory to design and develop a tool to ensure a 24x7 up-time and ease...
Shahram Ghandeharizadeh, Andrew Goodney, Chetan Sh...
XML database functionality has been emerging in "XML-only" databases as well as in the major relational database products. Yet, there is no industry standard XML databas...
Two trends are converging to make the CPU cost of a table scan a more important component of database performance. First, table scans are becoming a larger fraction of the query p...
Allison L. Holloway, Vijayshankar Raman, Garret Sw...