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VLDB
1995
ACM
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BigSur: A System For the Management of Earth Science Data
In this paper we present a prototype system for the management of earth science data which is novel in that it takes a DBMS centric view of the the task. Our prototype -- called &...
Paul Brown, Michael Stonebraker
VLDB
1995
ACM
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A Data Transformation System for Biological Data Sources
Scientific data of importance to biologists in the Humitn Genome Project resides not only in conventional da.tabases, but in structured files maintained in a number of different f...
Peter Buneman, Susan B. Davidson, Kyle Hart, G. Ch...
VLDB
1995
ACM
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Applying Database Technology in the ADSM Mass Storage System
Luis-Felipe Cabrera, Robert M. Rees, Wayne Hineman
VLDB
1995
ACM
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Value-cognizant Speculative Concurrency Control
We describe SCC-kS, a Speculative Concurrency Control (SCC) algorithm that allows a DBMS to use efficiently the extra computing resources available in the system to increase the l...
Azer Bestavros, Spyridon Braoudakis
VLDB
1995
ACM
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Document Management as a Database Problem
abstract of invited paper Document management has many aspects, among them acquisition, storage, retrieval, presentation and processing of documents (work flow). These aspects will...
Rudolf Bayer
VLDB
1995
ACM
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Querying Shapes of Histories
We present a shape definition language, called SDC, for retrieving objects based on shapes contained in the histories associated with these objects. It is a small, yet powerful, l...
Rakesh Agrawal, Giuseppe Psaila, Edward L. Wimmers...
VLDB
1995
ACM
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Efficient Incremental Garbage Collection for Client-Server Object Database Systems
We describe an eficient server-based algorithm for garbage collecting object-oriented databases in a client/server environment. The algorithm is incremental and runs concurrently ...
Laurent Amsaleg, Michael J. Franklin, Olivier Grub...