An operating system’s readahead and buffer-cache behaviors can significantly impact application performance; most often these better performance, but occasionally they worsen it...
To bridge the increasing processor-disk performance gap, buffer caches are used in both storage clients (e.g. database systems) and storage servers to reduce the number of slow di...
Zhifeng Chen, Yan Zhang, Yuanyuan Zhou, Heidi Scot...
Tree based indexing structures like -trees, ·-trees, Bitmap indexes and Ê-trees have become essential for getting good performance when accessing vast datasets. However, most dat...
Yannis Kotidis, Yannis Sismanis, Nick Roussopoulos
As database application performance depends on the utilization of the memory hierarchy, smart data placement plays a central role in increasing locality and in improving memory ut...
Minglong Shao, Jiri Schindler, Steven W. Schlosser...
The K-Closest-Pairs Query (K-CPQ), a type of distance join in spatial databases, discovers the K pairs of objects formed from two different datasets with the K smallest distances....
Antonio Corral, Yannis Manolopoulos, Yannis Theodo...