Distributed data processing is becoming a reality. Businesses want to do it for many
reasons, and they often must do it in order to stay competitive. While much of the …

New storage-class memory (SCM) technologies, such as phase-change memory, STT-RAM,
and memristors, promise user-level access to non-volatile storage through regular memory …

Database Management Systems provides comprehensive and up-to-date coverage of the
fundamentals of database systems. Coherent explanations and practical examples have …

This paper presents the design of a read-optimized relational DBMS that contrasts sharply
with most current systems, which are write-optimized. Among the many differences in its …

In this paper, we examine the issue of mining association rules among items in a large
database of sales transactions. The mining of association rules can be mapped into the …

In previous papers [SC05, SBC+ 07], some of us predicted the end of" one size fits all" as a
commercial relational DBMS paradigm. These papers presented reasons and experimental …

Computer architectures are moving towards an era dominated by many-core machines with
dozens or even hundreds of cores on a single chip. This unprecedented level of on-chip …

The last 25 years of commercial DBMS development can be summed up in a single phrase:"
One size fits all". This phrase refers to the fact that the traditional DBMS architecture …

To illustrate the flexibility of the GIST, we provide simple method implementations that allow
it to behave like a B+-tree, an R-tree, and an RD-tree, a new index for data with set-valued …

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---that …