Abstract—After decades of effort working on database performance, the quality and the usability of database systems have received more attention in recent years. In particular, t...
Advancement in mobile computing technologies has prompted strong needs for database systems that can be used in small devices such as sensors, cellular phones, PDAs, car navigator...
There are many database applications that require users to coordinate and communicate. Friends want to coordinate travel plans, students want to jointly enroll in the same set of ...
Lucja Kot, Nitin Gupta 0003, Sudip Roy, Johannes G...
Complex database queries require the use of memory-intensive operators like sort and hashjoin. Those operators need memory, also referred to as SQL memory, to process their input ...
The Hippocratic Oath has guided the conduct of physicians for centuries. Inspired by its tenet of preserving privacy, we argue that future database systems must include responsibi...
Rakesh Agrawal, Jerry Kiernan, Ramakrishnan Srikan...
The increasing power of modern computers steadily opens up new application domains for advanced data processing such as engineering and knowledge-based applications. To meet their...
—We investigate methods to improve the performance of algorithms for automatic storage reclamation of object databases. These algorithms are based on a technique called partition...
Jonathan E. Cook, Alexander L. Wolf, Benjamin G. Z...
In a transaction-time temporal object database management system (TODBMS), updating an object creates a new version of the object, but the old version is still accessible. A TODBM...
Current evidence indicates that poor data quality is pervasive and has a significant negative impact on business success. Information-system (IS) professionals are typically charg...