This paper presents the design of the storage system for the POSTGRES data base system under construction at Berkeley. It is novel in several ways. First, the storage manager supp...
This paper presents two algorithms for maintaining Btree index consistency in a DBMS which does not use write-ahead logging (WAL). One algorithm is similar to shadow paging, but i...
One of the most challenging tasks for the database administrator is to physically design the database to attain optimal performance for a given workload. Physical design is hard b...
Cristina Maier, Debabrata Dash, Ioannis Alagiannis...
Multi-Instance-Precommit (MIP) has been recently presented as an innovative transaction management scheme in support of reliability for Atomic Transactions in multitier (e.g. Web-...
Replicating data over a cluster of workstations is a powerful tool to increase performance, and provide faulttolerance for demanding database applications. The big challenge in su...