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PVLDB
2010
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13 years 6 months ago
Database Replication: a Tale of Research across Communities
Replication is a key mechanism to achieve scalability and fault-tolerance in databases. Its importance has recently been further increased because of the role it plays in achievin...
Bettina Kemme, Gustavo Alonso
PODS
2010
ACM
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14 years 1 months ago
Understanding queries in a search database system
It is well known that a search engine can significantly benefit from an auxiliary database, which can suggest interpretations of the search query by means of the involved concep...
Ronald Fagin, Benny Kimelfeld, Yunyao Li, Sriram R...
DEXAW
2005
IEEE
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14 years 2 months ago
Wide-Area Replication Support for Global Data Repositories
Wide-area replication improves the availability and performance of globally distributed data repositories. Protocols needed for maintaining replication consistency may cause an un...
Hendrik Decker, Luis Irún-Briz, Rubé...
PVLDB
2010
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The Case for Determinism in Database Systems
Replication is a widely used method for achieving high availability in database systems. Due to the nondeterminism inherent in traditional concurrency control schemes, however, sp...
Alexander Thomson, Daniel J. Abadi
VLDB
1997
ACM
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14 years 17 days ago
Finding Data in the Neighborhood
In this paper, we present and evaluate alternative techniques to effect the use of location-independent identifiers in distributed database systems. Location-independent identi...
André Eickler, Alfons Kemper, Donald Kossma...