We show how structured data stored in files can benefit from standard database technology and in particular be queried and updated using database languages. We introduce the notio...
During the process of updating a database, two interrelated problems could arise. On one hand, when an update is applied to the database, integrity constraints could become violat...
Data partitioning is often used to scale-up a database system. In a centralized database system, the serialization order of commited update transactions can be inferred from the d...