While there seems to be a general agreement that next years' systems will include many processing cores, it is often overlooked that these systems will also include an increa...
Online Transaction Processing (OLTP) databases include a suite of features -- disk-resident B-trees and heap files, locking-based concurrency control, support for multi-threading ...
Stavros Harizopoulos, Daniel J. Abadi, Samuel Madd...
We present a technique that masks failures in a cluster to provide high availability and fault-tolerance for long-running, parallelized dataflows. We can use these dataflows to im...
Mehul A. Shah, Joseph M. Hellerstein, Eric A. Brew...
Activity in social media such as blogs, micro-blogs, social networks, etc is manifested via interaction that involves text, images, links and other information items. Naturally, s...
Sources of data uncertainty and imprecision are numerous. A way to handle this uncertainty is to associate probabilistic annotations to data. Many such probabilistic database mode...