Storage systems in data centers are an important component of large-scale online services.
They typically perform replicated transactional operations for high data availability and …

Responding to the" datacenter tax" and" killer microseconds" problems for memory-intensive
datacenter applications, diverse solutions including Smart NIC-based ones have been …

Blockchain has come a long way-a system that was initially proposed specifically for
cryptocurrencies is now being adapted and adopted as a general-purpose transactional …

With the arrival of the European Union's General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR),
several companies are making significant changes to their systems to achieve compliance …

This paper presents vCorfu, a strongly consistent cloudscale object store built over a shared
log. vCorfu augments the traditional replication scheme of a shared log to provide fast reads …

Many application domains can benefit from hybrid transaction/analytical processing (HTAP)
by executing queries on real-time datasets produced by concurrent transactions. However …

This book takes readers through the sensational history of blockchains and their potential to
revolutionize database systems of the future. In order to demystify blockchains, the book …

One of the main characteristics that today makes cloud services so popular is their ability to
be elastic, ie, they can adapt their provisioning to variable workloads, thus increasing …

The huge amount of data generated, the speed at which it is produced, and its heterogeneity
in terms of format, represent a challenge to the current storage, process and analysis …

Given the skewed nature of practical key-value (KV) storage workloads, distributed KV
stores can adopt a tiered approach to support fast data access in a hot tier and persistent …